Fonte: Turismo y Sociedad; Vol 25 (2019): July-December; 113-130
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Resumo: During the period 2013-2017 a case study was developed with the purpose of identifying the elements that characterize the transformations associated with the tourist appropriation of the territory. For it the ruptures and continuities in the ejidal organization of the Matlatzinca community of San Francisco Oxtotilpan, State of Mexico were identified. From a sociological approach and a perspective centered on the actor, it is observed that the factors that influence the transformation of the territory and the appropriation of the tourist activities are: the social organization, the inclusion and exclusion mechanisms, the relations with the external environment and collective learning. The results show that the ejidal organization plays a defining role in the change processes forming an organizational base with historical depth and cultural roots, and at the same time representing a restrictive factor for the implantation of the economist logic in the indigenous communities. It is concluded that the development of tourism activities in indigenous territories simultaneously expresses processes of transformation, continuity processes and a change of material and symbolic elements, which present ambivalences between the socioeconomic transformation of the territory and the reproduction of asymmetric power relations.
