Tourism, globalization and the environment in the Mexican Caribbean Coast

The terms globalization and tourism tend to be regarded as synonyms in the Mexican Caribbean, an area which shifted from a virtually uninhabited borderline territory to a tourism center receiving over six million visitors peryear. Territorial occupation patterns derived from tourism -identified duri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Córdoba y Ordóñez, Juan, García de Fuentes, Ana
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Investigaciones Geográficas
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/30339
Acceso en línea:https://www.investigacionesgeograficas.unam.mx/index.php/rig/article/view/30339
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Turismo
desarrollo
desarrollo humano
globalización
sustentabilidad
patrones de ocupación del territorio
Tourism
development
human development
globalization
sustainability
territorial occupation patterns
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Sumario:The terms globalization and tourism tend to be regarded as synonyms in the Mexican Caribbean, an area which shifted from a virtually uninhabited borderline territory to a tourism center receiving over six million visitors peryear. Territorial occupation patterns derived from tourism -identified during field work through a physiognomic analysiswere used to investigate some of the implications of the complex relationship between tourism and development, the latter including not only economic but human factors, as well as with the natural and cultural environment characterized by both a great diversity and a great fragility.