Reproducing life in a dynamic environment: building tourist capabilities in San Andrés Ixtlahuaca, Oaxaca, México

Abstract

This research works with skill dynamics and new rural community approaches to analyse how to generate community tourism skills and management, principally related to cope with water shortages in San Andrés Ixtlahuaca, Oaxaca. Qualitative tools were used to understand community learning processes, and quantitative tools were used to identify training and relationships. The results evidence dynamic capacity for acquisition, internalisation and transformation of knowledge relating to tourism. New knowledge is organized and integrated into traditional know-how toward a strategy for the continuity of community life in terms of conservation and better use of communal resources.