Tourism and Territory-Network: Theoretical Approaches

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the conceptual relationship between territory and networks and how the conceptual binomial territory-network is indispensable in the analysis of tourism. Thus, it is a theoretical essay about the concepts of territory, networks, territory-network and how tourism can be understood based on this perspective. The first part of this work discusses the concept of territory and its relationship with networks. The second part demonstrates how, from the binomial territory-network and territory-zone, some elements of tourism can be understood, namely: tourists, State, companies and workers. The dual nature of tourism activity is presented in view of the zonal and reticular logics of tourism agents. This work, therefore, of an essayistic nature, sought to point out how the analysis of tourism can be carried out through the conceptual hybrids territory-zone and territory-network, presenting the different spatial logics and showing how the reticular logic, related to the idea of territory- network, is crucial in understanding the spatial structure of the elements of tourism activity.