Conflicts of valuing heritage assets and use of religious heritage for tourism purposes in Toluca City, Mexico

The paper aims to a general approach to the way in which the management of religious heritage is carried out for tourism purposes in the historic center of the city of Toluca, Mexico. Assessment it considered according to the scope problems and limitations, based on the explanatory framework of Thomson (2006) who argues that one consequence of the contextualization of symbolic forms is that they are subject to complex processes of evaluation and conflict, distinguishing two types of particularly important assessments: the symbolic and economic ones. The hypothesis is that the management of the religious assets oriented towards tourism, constitutes a field for symbolic and functional dispute between the various interest groups involved, which entail the different management style according to the different types of appropriation of heritage that has an impact on their use.