Rural tourism as alternative for sustainable development case Huichapan, Hidalgo, Mexico

Abstract

Rural tourism is a dynamic and innovative way of doing tourism because it is very different from the traditional sun and beach tourism that is better known, the latter focuses on the tourist area of a place with a beach leaving aside the receiving community; However, the rural one focuses on the less privileged towns but with great tourist potential, to develop the tourist activity in which the tourist enters in contact with nature, the receiving community, and its culture, as long as the heritage is preserved and the environment is taken care of, since a characteristic of this one, is that sustainable development is carried out, in which besides knowing the customs and traditions of a place also the natural environment is preserved. It is worth mentioning that this activity is gaining strength day by day, since it is considered a way to eradicate poverty from a site, due to the great economic spill it generates.