A regional model of alternative tourism and social economy in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Authors

  • Samuel Jouault CEMCA - Centro de Estudios Mexicanos y Centroamericanos - 3337 UMIFRE nº16 ESO - Espacios y SOciedades - UMR 6590
  • Ana Garcia de Fuentes CINVESTAV Unidad Mérida
  • Tlacaelel Rivera CINVESTAV- Unidad Mérida

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/otra.2015.917.05

Abstract

The development of an Atlas of Alternative Tourism required us to apply a census type questionnaire composed of 162 questions, where social, cultural, environmental and economic information was obtained from the 153 social tourism companies operating in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. The heterogeneity of the results found, coupled with a prior identifi cation of the lack of dialectical approaches and broad analytical units in studies on alternative tourism, led us to present in this paper a regional model that seeks to explain the development processes that those companies might pursue in relation to the features underlying a utopian ideal of social economy. The model raises the following four scenarios for the evolution of the companies: failure, paternalism, privatization and social economy.

Keywords: alternative tourism, social economy, model, region, Mexico.

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Published

2015-09-04

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 17 (2015): volume IX - nº 17, 2nd semester/2015

Section

Dossier Las búsquedas de opciones para la vida con/a pesar de/contra el capital: Miradas etnográficas

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