Tourism and Communality: Local Development Paradigm in the El Geiser Spa in the State of Hidalgo, Mexico.

Abstract

The present investigation has the objective of analyzing and describing the strategies incorporated by the inhabitants of the Uxdejhe community in the Municipality of Tecozautla in the State of Hidalgo in Mexico, to implement a process of community work based on a solidarity, equitable and self-management organization. , starting from the dynamics of tourism as an alternative for local development, oriented to the use of natural heritage as a resource for common use, from the transformation of local actors to adapt from ejidatarios to service providers by constituting the Spa called El Geiser, as a sustainable tourism project, which is precisely fed by the thermal waters that emanate from a Geyser located in this ejido, which favors its positioning with visitors, based on the particularities and healing properties as a hydrothermal phenomenon with mineral components. The foregoing, approached from the theoretical perspectives of communality and the social economy, with which the principles of collective property, distribution of tasks and agreed responsibilities, relationships of trust and equality are enunciated and demonstrated, all of this, as significant pillars that regulate the processes and productive composition, aimed at achieving common welfare. The methodology used is qualitative, under an exploratory and descriptive approach based on a transversal design, considering the foundations of ethnography. It is concluded that tourism from a community and inclusive perspective consolidates local benefits by promoting family contribution and participation as multidisciplinary options to give continuity to indigenous identity and rural roots for collective development.