El Desarrollo Turístico en el Delta de Tigre (Argentina). Mitos y Realidades

Abstract

Tigre’s Delta is located at the end of Paraná River, close to Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area. Since the 1990s it has undergone a process of touristification. Here we examine this process in relation to global transformations in the tourism industry and to the implementation of neoliberal policies in the country. We study the strategies for attractiveness construction and different tourism modalities currently deployed, and their impacts on local population. We review the experience of an of artisans’ network that launched a store on the islands but encountered significant difficulties to integrate into the dominant circuits. Based on the above, we argue that tourism development, far from eradicating poverty, has produced gentrification.