Tourism Carrying Capacity Assessment on Serra da Calçada trails

Serra da Calçada" mountain is considered a prominent region attractive for ecotourism and sports practices such as trekking and mountain biking due its cultural landscape, physical and environmental characteristics and qualities of are.Besides its rocky outcrops of quartzite and iron hosts important headwater and endemic vegetation The recovery of degraded trial opened by the use of motorized sports vehicles in the past and the need for rational use for the conservation of local resources justify the study of the tourist carrying capacity of the trails.This paper presents the results found for the trails Estrada de Resgate e Prevenção de Incêndio, Gota and Forte de Brumadinho, chosen among others from the diverse system, and compares them to analogous reference studies.The study recognizes tourist carrying capacity as a valid tool to assist planning and management decisions with appropriate adjustments and periodic reviews.