The game of Capoeira from Bahia to the world: an example of sustained tourism

This is an exploratory approach to the use of Capoeira as a relevant tourist product, and appropriated by the Brazilian national tourism agencies, more particularly in the State of Bahia.The methodology used was a documentary and bibliographic analysis of tourism and capoeira, especially documents from the tourist agencies of Bahia, historical scientific articles, blogs and other information from websites about these subjects.The text provides a brief historical overview of the origins of tourism in the world and in Brazil, highlighting the main bodies created over the years at a national and local level.The second section of this approach highlights the importance of Capoeira for tourism in Brazil, highlighting some of the historical events along the way, especially the recognition of the Roda de Capoeira as a national intangible heritage by IPHAN and by UNESCO as an intangible heritage of humanity.The third section of this analysis highlights concrete initiatives by the State of Bahia to use this Brazilian expression as one of its most important cultural products, highlighting some examples of the use of Capoeira at the state and private level as a use for sustainable tourism, as expressed by official and private groups of this modality in different performance environments.We conclude that data on the use of Capoeira as a fundamental element for sustainable tourism is still incipient, and that future studies should present more relevant results that go beyond the borders of Bahia.