MICRO-CLUSTER TURÍSTICOS: EL PAPEL DEL CAPITAL SOCIAL EN EL DESARROLLO ECONÓMICO LOCAL

Abstract

Local Productive Systems theory has been used for a certain period of time, applied to the scientist analysis of tourist activity, especially with the development of the studies made by the Tourist Clusters. This analytic perspective considers very important the analysis of the specific area where tourist activity is held, and as application of this theoretical framework, he approach focuses on the importance of the elements of the Production System, who are the actors and productive relationships that are established between them in the productive environment. However, despite the scientific breakthrough that has occurred, these studies have yet a clear analytical deficit, which is due to the limited treatment given to the analysis of the elements of the productive system, i.e. to the actors and their relationships. An important component of this framework has been called the theory of stakeholders, which has provided the introduction of important analytical innovations, both of the players and their productive relations. Nevertheless, this second framework of analysis still has a deficit of relationships analysis, as it focuses particularly on static factors of relations, as part of same sentence.The work presented here, aims to provide a new methodology for the analysis of tourism, under the Tourism Cluster, the dynamic characteristics of relations, through the study of the processes of effective collaboration that occur between public and private actors for the development of tourist activities in a given territory, essentially using the Social Network Analysis.

Keywords

• Social capital
• social economic development
• networks of tourist actors
• analysis of social networks
• productive clusters