El papel de las Instituciones en el Desarrollo Regional del Turismo: Una perspectiva desde la Densidad Institucional

Identifier:  TDX:3295

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX3295

Authors:  Restrepo Montoya, Natalia

Abstract:
The aim of this thesis is to understand the role of institutions in regional tourism development. It analyses whether the generation of institutional capacities is a facilitator of the consolidation and tourist development processes of a region and a governance driver. For this purpose, the research deploys an analytic model inspired, in the context of the economic geography, in the institutional thickness approach, paying particular attention to the study of the role of institutional presence, the interaction dynamics, domain structures and the common agendas between institutions in tourist and regional development. The empirical analysis is developed in a Latin American region, Antioquia – Colombia. The research methodology combines qualitative and quantitative techniques applied directly to 28 key institutions for tourist development in the Antioquia region and in Colombia. There are another additionally analysed 79 institutions intervening indirectly which are associated to the tourist activity.