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This document intends to show how development policies of the Mexican government have helped to further coastal regions, whose economic basis is tourist activity. In this context, a pattern of development of urbanization in two of the countries important tourist destinations: Acapulco and the Tijuana-Ensenada Coastal Corridor, is presented. This work intends to underscore the dangers posed to the future of a tourist center, by the lack of global planning or vision that allows to correct deviations from the implemented model and taking the experiences of other tourist destinations to prevent having thus to face the high costs brought about by the decline of a tourist center.
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