TOURISM AS AN INTERVENTION AND IMPLICATIONS FOR RURAL COMMUNITIES

Abstract

Tourism development in rural areas has multiple directions, but its configuration from the new rurality is generating profound socio-cultural and nature transformations on rural communities, taking an important role in defining intervention strategies by the economy. The research aims to describe the position and the intervention actions, which currently have several external actors to the tourism development as well as their implications for rural communities. Therefore, it identifes the position assumed by certain international organizations, Federal government agencies, and even Civil Society Organizations in Mexico, and the impacts generated by the fragmentation of communal land, the weakening of local organizational structures, restructuring economic and market opening, and even community confrontations by recreational use of resources.