Turismo y preservación ambiental: el desarrollo turístico de Península Valdés, Provincia del Chubut

: According with academic research and the actors involved, the relationship between tourism an environmental preservation is seen in a positive way. In this relationship, preservated areas are seen previous from the tourist use, and it definition as a preservated area is independent from tourism. Tour-ism and tourism business only take advantage of these previous areas to transform them in tourist attrac-tive. The aim of this paper is to analyze critically the tourist valorization process of Peninsula Valdés. This article inquires the relationship between tourism and environmental preservation, observing that environmental preservation areas aren’t previous and independent from tourism.and independent.