Abstract

MAYA ESPINOZA, Ivonne; RODRIGUEZ LAZARO, José  and  BARRADAS MARTINEZ, María del Rosario. Communal property, a key element to promote the successful development of ecotourism businesses. Revista Col. San Luis [online]. 2022, vol.12, n.23, 00024.  Epub May 27, 2024. ISSN 2007-8846.  https://doi.org/10.21696/rcsl122320221374.

In recent years, ecotourism has gained relevance as an option to recreate culture, preserve traditions and conserve the environment, and it is also considered an economic development strategy to combat poverty and inequality in rural communities in the state of Oaxaca. Therefore, the objective of this article is to analyze communal property as a key element to promote the successful development of ecotourism enterprises. To this end, a qualitative type of research with a hermeneutic method was used and an analysis of the current legal framework of communal property and the system of uses and customs was carried out. The results show that the advantages of communal property are: it has legal personality, it is unseizable, inalienable and imprescriptible; characteristics that make it a viable alternative for the success of these enterprises. Among the disadvantages are the privatization of plots of land, the transfer of land under pseudo-legal schemes, the dispossession of plots of land through leasing for decades and individualized support.

Keywords : property regime; communal property; ecotourism enterprises; ecotourism; agrarian legal framework.