La perspectiva de los residentes por la actividad recreativa en el Centro Histórico de la alcaldía de Coyoacán.

In the last few decades, tourist or recreational areas have generated negative symptoms due to the increase in the number of visitors, which has affected the host communities. The objective of this document is to show preliminary results of a research that seeks to analyze the perceptions of the residents towards this problem in the Historical Center of the Coyoacán City Hall from the Social Exchange Theory. This aim will be achieved using the ethnographic method, upon the concept that tourism or recreational activity is a phenomenon that involves the interaction between visitors and hosts. As a finding, there is currently massive tourism in the study area, which has led to negative demonstrations by some residents. This situation arises because tourism implies the interaction between tourists, visitors and the local community in a given geographical area; it can be understood that this exchange generates both positive (benefits) and negative (costs) impacts, which are analyzed from the perception of the receiving community, as well as to investigate the effects it causes in an area promoted as a tourist, cultural and gastronomic attraction, due to its importance at the level of visitors acquisition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]