The discussion of the relationship of mutual dependence between population and economic
development is complex and reflects a theoretical and practical concern pretty old, which has
attracted the attention of thinkers and researchers over time. The theoretical discussion
involving the motivating factors of tourism are also demographic factors that have particular
importance in determining the levels and patterns of fertility, or the means used to plan the
tourist activity in one place, drive new productive standards, spurring new values, patterns of
consumption and lifestyles, impacting the reproductive behavior of women living in the
tourist place. Given these arguments, the goal of this dissertation is to analyze and explain
how the changes generated by the development of tourism has affected the dynamics of the
population, especially the levels and patterns of fertility of women residing in the
municipality of Salinópolis (PA). The study of the general hypothesis that the socioeconomic
and spatial reorganization of Salinópolis from the development of tourism promoted changes
in their population dynamics, particularly in reproductive behavior of women from 1970. In
view of these considerations, it has developed an interpretative study where the database used
were the population census from 1970 to 2000 and counting the population of the IBGE 2007,
data from the Municipal Secretary of Health of Salinópolis (SMSS) linked with Information
System on Live Births (Sinasc) and empirical research that has developed through stratified
random probability sampling. The results show that the tourist activity has not brought to
Salinopolitan society significant improvements in education, professional skills and labour
supply, factors that have particular importance in determining the levels and patterns of
fertility, however, the tourist activity affected the reproductive behavior of women in two
distinct moments. First with the prevalence of high fertility rates, given the culture of
recovery of large family associated with the large contingent of immigrant women of
childbearing age in the municipality; a second time, the sharp fall in fertility before the
messages of modernity brought by the tourist activity, growth of urban space and, mainly, by
the action of public policies with regard to controlling the birth rate. However, the search
results characterize the prevalence of high rates of fertility in Salinópolis, as in the state of
Pará and the North region, when compared with nationally. In this context, the demographic
implications generated by tourism in Salinópolis require the development of diagnostics
sector and appropriate public policies.
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