Recursos territoriales y procesos geográficos: El ejemplo de los recursos turísticos

Abstract

The concept of resource, with a long geographical tradition, and essential to understand society-space relations, has lost presence when explaining the processes of functionalization, occupancy and transformation of the territory. The idea here is to remark the explicative potential of the concept but also its complexity and the need of including it in a wider framework that considers cultural, social, economical and technical processes, as well as the agents involved and their interests and capabilities. Bringing the existence up of a main geographical subject in the degree of Tourism called Territorial Tourist Resources, at the end of this text the conceptual approaching is specifically illustrated with geographical resources for tourism.