Tenth International Conference on The Constructed Environment

Abstract

Quintana Roo is a territory whose tourist vocation was built and generated exogenously, which has led all economic and social policies to focus on the tourism sector, which determines the rest of the sectors covered. Although the economic development of the north of Quintana Roo is only explained by the tourist activity in the region, it is also true that said development has generated a plundering of the Mayan by commodifying and dramatizing its worldview, culture, and traditions, whose economic benefits are monopolized practically in its entirety by the mass tourism that relegates contemporary Mayans to spectators of the usufruct of their territory and culture. In this sense, the appropriation of the territory not only exerts pressure on the land and natural resources of the original inhabitants, but the exploitation is brought to a cultural level, decoupling the community from itself. The purpose of this research is to study the content of the Quintana Roo State Development Plans of 2005-2022 regarding the Mayan as a subject of public policy against tourism. In this sense, the categories of analysis of said documents that are the guiding axes of state public policy, reveal the political and social approach that the State has on the Mayas as a social subject and the cultural, economic and territorial plunder of which they are the object of the implementation of tourism as a hegemonic activity in the region, disconnecting the original communities from a social and economic process rooted in rural areas.