Introduction:

The objective of this work is to present the product of the application of the Harmonic Tourism Methodology, proposed by Palmas et al. (2014) as a Theoretical-Methodological Model.

Method:

This methodology has the purpose of carrying out a tourism planning based on the interrelation of vernacular-rational knowledge of the communities; and that allows to analyze and manage the harmonic tourism as an alternative for local development under the attributes of sustainability. The methodology, part of the categories analysis: complex system, systemic elements and sub elements, harmonic tourism and vernacular-rational knowledge, which allow to integrate, from a vernacular-rational tourism planning diagram, the strongest interrelations between the subsystems Biophysical (natural) and anthropic (sociocultural). As research instruments, 274 questionnaires were randomly applied, 45 in-depth interviews with key stakeholders, familiarization visits and constant field observation over a 4-year period (2009-2013).

Results:

The proposed model was applied since 2014 in San Pedro Tultepec de Quiroga and the Chimaliapan Wetland with pilot groups of students and it is planned to continue it from the answers obtained with funded research projects. The study region is located in the municipality of Lerma, State of Mexico. Among the main results, there is the identification and explanation of the environmental problem from the perspective of complex systems, considering the harmonic tourism as a tool to foster local development. In addition to that, this methodology can be a construct to follow for the dissemination of information of the tangible and intangible services offered by the Wetland to the community, in order to promote the awareness of the rescue of the resources and their revaluation through tourism.

Discussion:

Leaving open the discussion that this methodology can be implemented for the local development of any community at a global level, since it is based and is consolidated in the revaluation of the communities' vernacular knowledge, in order to propose unique tourism territorial planning projects and with identity.

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