647. Tourism and its dynamics in the search for cheap land and labour: the case of Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, Mexico

Abstract

Tourism is one of the key activities of the world economy. Tourism has become very attractive for peripheral economies that seek developmental mechanisms for the provision of jobs and the attraction of foreign investment. From a critical geography standpoint, tourism is a means for the production of space for capital accumulation that requires cheap land and labour. These low-cost elements are a historical and spatial constant, so that the case study of Los Cabos herewith presented offers an analysis of the processes of appropriation and capitalization involved in the unlimited accumulation of profit.