Melgar, sitio turístico en búsqueda de su identidad

Abstract

This document establishes the dynamics, changes and impacts that led the economic development in the cultural field of the population of Melgar, located in the department of Tolima. To achieve this document, we started with a theoretical approach, which was articulated through field experience, focusing on the relationships between culture, identity and heritage, from the economic model.

From the economic point of view, it is based on the premise that money obeys the dynamics of accumulation of goods that would allow it to reach productivity and market competitiveness indexes, but generating a crisis of recognition of the population and disconnected from the human being in the cultural development. Aspects that limit the identity of a population because they allow me to detach myself from the social sphere due to the urgency to comply with the mediatic needs of tourism, without preserving their identity as cultural heritage, blurring the clarity of being recognized as Melgarense.

A new approach to tourism development is sought where its inhabitants, entrepreneurs and institutions are involved, to promote reasonable tourism that generates economic sustainability but above all in the quest to recognize their identity, to seek their appropriation of space.