PROYECTOS PARA EL DESARROLLO DE ARICA Y SU REGIÓN EN LOS AÑOS SESENTA: EL TURISMO EN EL LABORATORIO DE LOS POLOS DE CRECIMIENTO Y LA IDENTIDAD DEL ESPACIO ANDINO

This paper intends to approximate some conceptual considerations, which may contribute to understanding the phases by which tourism was seen as a suitable policy for a development process that would impact Arica and its region. It also presents how the city’s image as a touristic one was formed and how the interior landscape of the region was gradually incorporated into the world of touristic representations of the region. Likewise, it presents a sectorial policy that promotes tourism through construction works and actions from the Junta de Adelanto Board, considering tourism as an economic activity capable of configuring the relations between the city and the interior of the department. This area was promoted under the idea of a development pole, a notion that revised both its theoretical configuration and its application at a national and international level. The idea of how a territorial system, involving the city and the region, led to the consideration of a social and economic development strategy involving minor human settlements is also examined. It appealed within a dimension of the identity of the patrimonial configuration within the territory as a whole.