Beziehungen zwischen Tourismus, ländlichem Kunsthandwerk und Agrarstruktur in einigen Dörfern Zentralmexikos

Abstract: The sums that the state of Mexico receives from international tourism for the improvement of its balance of payments are rising every year. The planned promotion of tourism in Mexico is discernible, among other things, in the revival and expansion of the many traditional skilled crafts of the country. At the same time this policy pursues the structural aim of increasing the rural carrying capacity by creating extra agrarian forms of employment, and to protect people from migration to the towns. This study draws of the example of three villages in the Central Mexican Highland, each of which specialized either in pottery or the carving of onyx and marble souvenirs or the production of palm-leaf mats and plaitings, discusses some aspects of relations between tourism-related skilled rural crafts and the agrarian structure. The discussion centres on the question of whether and in how far skilled crafts are a suitable means for the long-term increase in rural carrying capacity without be.... https://www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/article/view/1948

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Beziehungen zwischen Tourismus, ländlichem Kunsthandwerk und Agrarstruktur in einigen Dörfern Zentralmexikos ; volume:35 ; number:3 ; year:1981 ; Erdkunde ; 35, Heft 3 (1981)

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Urheber: Sander, Hans-Jörg

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.1981.03.05
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2410291048365.687020061343
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 14.08.2025, 10:49 MESZ