Perception of the transformation from an agricultural landscape to a tourist landscape: the case of the Banderas Valley region, municipality of Bahía de Banderas, Nayarit

Abstract

The cultural landscape of the region of Valle de Banderas remained elements of a rural economy since the early twentieth century until the mid-eighties. Mining initially and after primary activities forged the expressions of an agricultural society and thrives by the mid-fifties. However, towards the end of the second half of the twentieth century, public policies aimed at strengthening and file to the tourism industry in the region gradually led impersonation of endemic cultural phrases typical of a rural landscape at a tourist landscape . The service economy was based in the region and transformed the landscape from the appropriation of the mode of economic, social and cultural production. To describe the transition from the rural landscape of the region in question to tourist landscape, he approached cultural geographic strategy proposed by Sauer (1925) and Claval (1999) with respect to the causes that establish the appropriation of landscape and materialistic cultural proposal of Harris (1982) with regard to the modification of the landscape through the infrastructure, the structure and superstructure.