culinary tourism, historical heritage, emblematic foods, local development
Abstract
With the purpose of analysing the relationship between culinary tourism and historical heritage, a case study was developed taking a qualitative approach, which deals with the analysis of a community that produces millenary salt in central Mexico. The categories of analysis were the social actors, the food product and the territory. The results show that the tourist activity presents ambivalent effects towards the social reproduction of the historical-culinary heritage with strong territorial ties. It is concluded that a review of the challenges and opportunities facing the Mexican countryside is necessary, as regards the insertion of rural tourism as a development strategy.
