Fonte: Turismo y Sociedad; Vol 25 (2019): July-December; 29-50
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Resumo: Pueblos Mágicos is a public program to encourage the sustainable development through the tourism based on the enhancement cultural heritage in places, usually characterized by rurality, which considers citizen participation in the planning of the program, as a strategy to include communities to benefits of tourism, however there are factors that limit it. Considering that the citizen participation operates on two levels, discursive and action, determinate by asymmetric power relations. First, the concept, and its relation with social sustainability and heritage, are reviewed to understand it reaches, and to understand the first level, the legal framework of the program that structures the conditions of citizen participation is analyzed, and, from the review of the various case studies, the action level is analyzed, in which these asymmetries is expressed.
