Alternative tourism as a route of economic and local development: north case of baja California sur
International Journal of Development Research
Alternative tourism as a route of economic and local development: north case of baja California sur
Received 27th December, 2016; Received in revised form 09th January, 2017; Accepted 23rd February, 2017; Published online 31st March, 2017
Copyright©2017, Emmanuel Picasso Salazar. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Baja California Sur findsits economic activity par excellence in having one of the most important tourist destinations nationally and internationally, however, given the geographical conditions of the state it is difficult for most of the territory, Benefit from this activity. It should be mentioned that natural resources have high potential for the development of tourist activities aimed at tourism modalities that are based more on direct contact with nature, so that a benefit can be obtained from communities that do not participate in the generation of Currencies for the tourism carried out in the south of BCS, it is here where the Alternative Tourism enters as an option. The present study details the opportunities that the north of the state faces to the urban concentration located in the south part and how the harmonization of both parts of the territory and the different modalities of tourism allow that the whole state generates foreign exchange.
