Tourist welcome. Tourism. Chapada Diamantina (BA). Vale do Pati (Chapada Diamantina, BA). Tourist host.

Vale do Pati is a local with specific characteristics that make it a unique tourist destination. This research, entitled “An Exploratory Journey Through Vale do Pati: A Study of Hosting in the Lodging”, aims to describe in detail this tourist destination located at the Chapada Diamantina National Park, in the Midwest of the State, from Bahia, Brazil, to build two proposals. The first one is a concept proposition of tourist reception under the eyes of the Vale do Pati local residents who receive tourists in their homes. The tourist reception is a little researched theme, whose main references are the brazilian author Biagio Avena and the french Gouirand. In the second axis, it is presented a proposal of digital application or website that can offer tourists systematized information about the research locus, as well as the available means of accommodation. As a methodological strategy, descriptive and exploratory research was used, and the methodological procedures involved survey, observation, coexistence, annotations, access monitoring and interviews. The results of the research point to the importance of special attention to the park management and its impacts on Vale do Pati, as well as the need to take care of local knowledge and its diffusion.