Turismo y patrimonio inmaterial, una alianza obscena

Abstract

The alter-globalist thought, headed by UNESCO, indicates that “intangible heritage” is an achievement for the development of the peoples, and that as such it must be exploited. The rejection of mass tourism, in parallel, has been increasing in the last decade in many places. In order to achieve “sustainability”, and to avoid tourism phobia, tourism practices should be brought closer to the exploitation of intangible heritage.The author, however, considers that in this equation there is a conceptual trap, which he calls an “obscene alliance”, since its raison to be is productivist rather than cultural. For him, from the critical anthropology, this alliance is not possible without violating the peoples who exercise their arts and their rites.