This is certainly the most famous tourist spot in Natal.
The village of Ponta Negra is a few square kilometers large. It used to be home for fishers and other working people; around early 1990's, the tourism businesses began to take ove the area; a few years ago, foreigner investors (notably Italians, Portuguese and other Europeans) started to invest a lot of money into the area, and tourism oriented businesses flourished.
Today, there are men at work all around the village for grow up, increasing incoming of foreign capitals. Medium and small hotels and flats are being built everywhere (there is no free space for bigger hotels - these are being built along the “via costeira”). Houses are being refurbished and adapted to become...