Tourist development in mountain centers in the Andes of Patagonia: Summary of the thesis on the degree of doctor in geographic sciences

The main objective of this thesis has been to emphasize the theoretical and methodological aspects that affect the possibility of a sustainable tourist development in mountain centers. The general approach was first to understand this development as the process able to respond in an integrated manner to the economic and social needs of the populations involved, while at the same time conserving the natural and cultural patrimony of these areas and secondly, to consider that the planning of the development implies necessarily a valorized ideological frame, a method and a process of management.