El turismo patrimonial en la inducción del desarrollo territorial

Abstract

This research proposes to evaluate strategies that articulate, in heritage tourism contexts, theoretical paradigms and the practice of territorial development processes. The analysis, from a territorial perspective, allows to find foundations and successes that channeled the potential of heritage to a motor tourist product of territorial development. To do so, relevant cases from Europe and Latin America are analyzed and it reflects on interventions that contribute to the practice of socio-economic revitalization and recovery of identity of the territory. The study of cases shown that the contribution of heritage tourism to the praxis of territorial development is not conditioned by the scale or the context in which are inserted the heritage tourism experiences, but by intervention at the macro/micro levels, the active participation of the different actors involved and the academic contribution in the Organization of the process.