Insurgency and Tourism: Reflections on the Impact of the Politicized Tourist in Chiapas
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https://doi.org/10.25145/j.pasos.2008.06.005Keywords:
politices tourist, organizational net, interetnic relations, indigenous rebellionAbstract
The paper analyses the interrelations between politics and tourism considering the impact of political instability generated by the Zapatista indigenous rebellion on tourism in Chiapas, Mexico. By analysing tourist products and fieldwork observations the transformation of the tourist industry is explained as an effect of pressures from a new kind of visitor, “political tourists”. Attracted by the indigenous movement and its relevance as a global social movement, their political and ideological position created demands that affected interethnic organisational networks and the social value of tourism activity. As a response indigenous and non indigenous tourist agents generated new strategies for economic recovery, including changes in the organisational networks and marketing symbols and ideologies as “commodities”.
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