Analysis on the role of residential tourism in the municipality of Ixtapan de la Sal in the Estado de Mexico

This article is the result of a thesis project to obtain the bachelor's grade. The purpose of study was to analyse the effects that are generated by residential tourism in Ixtapan de la Sal with the intension of knowing accurately the significance on the tourisms development of this destination. The method used in this project was the clinic approach. It intended to know the present situation of residential tourism. In addition, with the deductive method emerged from the theoretical revision proposed by Daniel Hiernaux in his work Segundas Residencias it was possible to confront theory and results extracted from field research. From the 40s on, tourism in Mexico has shown different modalities: sun and beach tourism, religious tourism, ecotourism and, particularly, residential tourism. A tendency of recent apogee, it is an activity which has been questioned as a tourism modality for it does not uses the hotel accommodation services as conventional tourism might do. However, it has important resonance on the host communities, as it is the case of study.