Abstract

HENRIQUE COSTA, Jean  and  GONZALEZ HERRERA, Manuel Ramón. Criminality, public security and tourism in the border area of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Estud. front [online]. 2020, vol.21, e046.  Epub Jan 15, 2021. ISSN 2395-9134.  https://doi.org/10.21670/ref.2004046.

This paper analyses the dynamics present in the relations between tourism, security and criminality in a border area, observing how the criminal and inequality dynamics coincide territorially with the spaces destined for visitors. The article investigates the case of Ciudad Juárez, a Mexican economic border center that has a significant flow of displacements with the USA. The study was conducted through secondary data on marginalization (2010) and prevailing crime (2010-2015) in Ciudad Juárez. The maps show that the spaces destined for tourism are not found in the most dangerous areas of the city, which implies that the visitor runs very little real risk if they do not extrapolate the dynamics of the comfort zone of the tourist territories. In Juárez, focusing on tourism security, there are much more representations of insecurity than a real threat to tourists who will hardly leave the comfort zones of the city.

Keywords : tourism; public security; criminality; border; Ciudad Juárez.

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