TURISMO RURAL COMUNITARIO EN EL CENTRO DE MÉXICO. CONSIDERACIONES PARA SU COMPRENSIÓN DESDE LAS TRANSFORMACIONES SOCIOECONÓMICAS

Abstract

It is known that tourism is an activity that generates multiple environmental, economic, and social impacts, but paradoxically it can be an engine of development; that is why it is necessary to rethink its practices and paradigms. Rural community-based tourism is a leisure option that, from an adaptive logic, contributes to the conservation of biocultural heritage and can function as a tool for the redistribution of wealth. The aim of this article is to identify critical approaches from ecological Marxism that help to characterize other forms of tourism based on cooperation, adaptation, and socio-ecological transitions. It has been identified the ambivalences of the nuances of community-based rural tourism to face environmental conservation that, through fragmented and intermittent efforts, allows progress towards new ways of managing rural space and leisure in contemporary societies.