Turismo na Montanha de Texcoco: Um olhar desde as Resistências Descoloniais

Abstract

This manuscript seeks to test the concept of decolonial tourism from the hybridization of genres that are woven between theory and empirical evidence. For this, a solid abstract reflection on the decolonial approach is used and it is developed from a paradoxical nuance with the tourist activity, with the objective of identifying the influence of alternative visions of the world and sentiments regarding other forms of tourism. It is possible to affirm the emergence of alternative tourist proposals, founded based on a critical and social conscience, anchored to solidarity economic models and with new intersections between nature and culture, which could constitute an emerging paradigm on new ways of taking advantage of free time and more specifically to do tourism. Aspect that became evident in the face of the forms of proximity displacement that benefited from the Covid-19 pandemic. Through exploratory research of an inductive nature, the empirical experience of three groups was recovered, which served as a point of reference to go back and forth between theory and reality, for the conformation of this essay. It is concluded that these new ways of doing tourism are based on a biocentric perspective, related to ancestral knowledge transmitted intergenerationally and carved in the interface between nature and culture. It is argued that these trends could define new ways of conceiving tourism in the 21st century.