The tourist city and business ecosystems: the case of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico

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ALFONSO ZEPEDA ARCE
ALVARO FABRICIO RAMÍREZ CAMPOS
LORENA TRINIDAD MEDINA ESPARZA

Abstract

The city is the physical, political and cultural product, a complex space defined as a concentration of population and activities, these activities exert a direct influence on the processes of spatial production, particularly those related to the tourism sector. The predominant vocation of the municipality of Puerto Vallarta for the tourist activity has placed this territory as an important pole of economic and urban development, the objective of the work is to measure the correlations between the actors of the productive activities, identifying the degrees of interaction between the different actors. of the business ecosystem of Puerto Vallarta through the analysis of economic actors under a descriptive-qualitative approach of cross-sectional design, considering that the business ecosystem is that space of interconnection and dependence between economic agents that should function in a healthy manner as an essential condition for that the organizations had success and continuity and that shape the territory. In this sense, some of the conclusions regarding Puerto Vallarta and its business ecosystem is that it rests on service companies, however, when reviewing the composition of the turns of local companies, a minimal presence of manufacturing industries and transformation among other elements.


Keywords: Art; art district; energizer; tourist destination; Puerto Vallarta; Mexico.

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ZEPEDA ARCE, A., RAMÍREZ CAMPOS, A. F., & MEDINA ESPARZA, L. T. (2025). The tourist city and business ecosystems: the case of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TOURISM, BUSINESS AND TERRITORY, 8(2), 308–330. https://doi.org/10.21071/riturem.v8i2.15906
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ALFONSO ZEPEDA ARCE, University Center of the South Coast of the University of Guadalajara, Mexico

PhD in Development Sciences from the University of Guadalajara; Master in Sustainable Tourism Management from the University for International Cooperation of San José, Costa Rica; Master in Public Management of Tourism, Sustainability and Competitiveness from the International University of Andalusia; Bachelor of Tourism from the University of Guadalajara; Professor of the Department of Tourism Studies at the University Center of the South Coast of the University of Guadalajara, Mexico; Member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) since 2019 level 1; Expert Peer Evaluator of the National Council for the Quality of Tourism Education A.C. (CONAET); International Peer Evaluator of the National Accreditation System of Higher Education of Costa Rica (SINAES).

ALVARO FABRICIO RAMÍREZ CAMPOS, University of Guadalajara, Mexico.

Graduate in Administration and Professor of Business Administration from the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. PhD in Management and Innovation Policies from the National Polytechnic Institute based at the Higher School of Commerce and Administration, Mexico. Author of academic works focused on strategic management, organizational behavior and business network analysis.

LORENA TRINIDAD MEDINA ESPARZA, Centro Universitario de la Costa Sur of the University of Guadalajara, Mexico

Professor at the Department of Tourism Studies at the Centro Universitario de la Costa Sur of the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. PhD in Development Sciences from the University of Guadalajara. Master's degree in Sustainable Tourism from the University for International Cooperation of San José de Costa Rica and a Bachelor's degree in Tourism from the University of Guadalajara.