Hermeneutic Perspective for the Interpretation of the Heritage-Making and Touristification Processes of the Day of the Dead in San Andrés Mixquic, Tláhuac, Mexico City

Tourism is characterized as a phenomenon that leverages social and natural elements to commemorate an experience in which tourists and hosts interact and engage through the enjoyment of a cultural, natural, or intangible components. Heritage-making has played a facilitating role in this process, as institutions, through protection, preservation, and reproduction of culture, have created a favorable environment for tourism. As a result, these assets undergo touristification, triggering a series of impacts on both cultural heritage and the communities to which they belong. This chapter aims to interpret the tourism phenomenon surrounding the Day of the Dead in San Andrés Mixquic, Tláhuac, Mexico City, and its spatial and territorial impacts on the community, using a hermeneutic and ethnographic methodology.