Observations on tourism and territorial development in segregated urban contexts: The paradox of local inclusion

Abstract

Socio-spatial segregation in tourism contexts is a phenomenon widely studied by the social sciences. Based primarily on critical approaches, their study has emphasized watching sociospatial segregation and tourism from a material dimension, making it difficult to connect the reflections with the degree of abstraction necessary to understand the phenomenon in its complexity. Accordingly, I propose the application of the social systems theory to characterize both tourism and the semantics of land development, and thus refer to the sociospatial segregation as linked to the primacy and role of both concepts.