Ordenamiento territorial, turismo y ambiente en Valle de Bravo, México

Abstract

Behind this idyllic landscape of water, forests and architecture, which offers marketing and evokes tradition, there were sharp conflicts of interests, social needs unmet, and the constant environmental depredation. In Valle de Bravo can be seen visions and landscapes with different socio-economic logic, as a result of a series of territorial policies formulated by the State and private initiative, aiming to promote tourism at the heart of capitalist development. The landscape created in some areas provides an image of prosperity and comfort, while others may look at the socio-spatial segregation that this activity has generated and that excludes most of the inhabitants of the benefits that tourism can bring.