Perception of safety of women living in the tourist destination, Cozumel, México.

Abstract

The perception of safety of women living in the tourist destination, Cozumel, was developed from participatory mapping and subsequent data analysis with Qgis software, in which security and insecurity are known because of the relationships between women, tourism practice and their common spaces. The most relevant result is that women perceived their space as safe to very safe, and in their experience, safe neighborhoods are those where there is tourism, police or military, and which are illuminated and transited; also identified as unsafe areas, those on the periphery, where people have less purchasing power and infrastructure is poor, it reveals a duality in the authority figures which are symbolically recognized by women as agents of violence and insecurity for some and security for others.