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Basing on a tourism system theory, thats considerer not just the economic effects, as also social, ecological and cultural, this work analyze the influences of the tourism in receiving communities. For in such a way a revision of literature on the subject was made and after, a study of case in the town of Carrancas, south of Minas Gerais, Brazil, to identify these effects. It had been evidenced that the tourism brings a series of effects for the receiving community. The theoretical proposals studied possibilited to identify indicators that signal the development stage of the activity, and the effect that its bringing or will bring.