¿Por qué Turismo? Repensar el auge del turismo

Abstract

In the present work we consider the reasons that explain the spectacular tourism boom in the last 5 decades. The traditional responses to this phenomenon, presented a whole "frond" of tourist-economical interactions: tourism as a "motor of development", tourism as "dynamizing the economic system", etc. Therefore, our objective is to contrast this Tourism-Development-Economic Growth framework, certainly suggestive. In order to avoid mystifications it is necessary to define somewhat ambiguous concepts such as Development (and its interactions with Tourism) and to deepen the economic impact of Tourism, the ultimate root of all that "frond" that seems to be the basis of This formidable theoretical-empirical expansion of Tourism. Therefore, the final purpose of our work is to propose a revision, from the complexity, of the Relational triangle Development-Economic Growth-Tourism, forming a "plural" framing that, on the one hand, allows a fertile reflection around the matter and, On the other, widen the limits of the playing field, fostering new responses to the tourism boom, in line with the current global context.