North American Migrants Working as Tour Guides in Alamos in Mexico Mobilities and Imaginaries
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https://doi.org/10.7146/dl.v14i21.113257Keywords:
Mobilities, North American migrants, Mexico, Imaginaries, Tour GuidesAbstract
The article focuses on the guide’s narratives and practices when guiding “House
Tours” that is the most visited tourist attraction in the Mexican town. We argue that
these guides provide narratives about concrete imaginaries that constitute not only
authenticity but also utopia – that we consider one of the core elements in tourism
imaginaries. The guides inscribe themselves in the utopian imaginaries in the Western
hemisphere that continue to be essential in the socio-cultural and political construction
of society. We conclude that these tourism imaginaries of places (and people) cannot
be considered only as commoditized representations with a symbolic content. Alamos
displays that way the significant connections that exist in terms of both representations
and mobilities.
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