Las paradojas en la construcción de la imagen turística. Análisis de los casos de Bariloche, El Calafate y Usuahia, Argentina.

Abstract

Tourist cities highly dependent on natural attractions are more vulnerable in the context of climate change and readjustment of the capitalist mode of production. This paper seeks to present and problematize the ways of carrying out tourism and its consequences in the peripheral region of Patagonia Argentina. From a critical theoretical framework from political ecology and critical geography and through a combination of quantitative and qualitative tools, a comparative analysis of the cases of Bariloche, El Calafate and Ushuaia with their respective associated National Parks will be carried out. These destinations attract large tourist contingents that mainly use air transport, which contributes to global warming. As a conclusion, it can be indicated that the destination images that have been built up are threatened by the same activity that promotes it