Elites empresariais e a configuração de espaços turísticos na ilha de Cozumel, México

Abstract

The article deals with the relationships between tourism, business elites and territory in the current scenario of the global expansion of tourism, one of the most important activities of the contemporary world economy, as indicated by international economic solution to poor and developing countries. The ethnographic data collected on the island of Cozumel, Mexico, in 2011, allow us to understand the politicaleconomic dimension in shaping their tourism spaces. The island is dominated by local business groups with political expression, and this plot act the state, international agencies and private interests.