Tourism as a axis of accumulation

Abstract

Tourist activity is recognized for its ability to generate income and jobs, but also by the negative result of the changes caused in the natural landscape and cultural locations. Here, under the capitalist mode of production, tourism has become an instrument for the reproduction of capital, through its expansion in underdeveloped economies, which have natural and cultural diversity that the activity needs to encourage mobility. The state plays an important role in the consolidation of tourism, as it takes over the territory to transform and adapt to the needs of International Tourism Group (IWG), which by economic globalization have been instituted in Rich areas with natural and cultural resources, these are modified to create tourist attractions in consecuence determining the new vocation of the place. Added to this, the strategies used by the IWG have been replicated at the local level constituted the Local Tourist Groups (LTG), in this sense the state of Quintana Roo contributes to 34% of income from tourism international. Therefore, this paper aims to reveal the behavior of the GTI and GTL in the state and thus support the new role of tourism: the axis of accumulation.