N Aguilar-Rivera1 and M Enriquez-Poy2
1Universidad Veracruzana, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias, Córdoba, Veracruz, México; naguilar@uv.mx
2Grupo MOTZORONGO, México
The sustainability of the sugar industry has been managed by agroecological technological packages in conjunction with advances in fertilization, phytosanitary management, and industrial transformation, mainly in the diversification towards bioenergy such as ethanol, cogeneration, and recently biohydrogen. However, the sugar industry has a cultural, historical, anthropological, and socioecological heritage that has not been a factor in the development of sugarcane regions. This work developed strategies to economically exploit sugarcane farms, sugarcane plantations, non-centrifuged sugar production, sugar mills, the sugarcane landscape, and a sugarcane route in the Cordoba Gulf sugarcane region in Veracruz, Mexico. An economical option for sugarcane and sugar production tourism is described after a series of interviews with tourism service owners and potential visitors, social participation techniques, GIS information, historiography, and bibliometric analysis. There is a growing interest in participating in the agro-industrial chain of sugarcane production, industrial heritage, ecotourism services, and historical and social values, as well as the establishment of a museum of the sugar industry with 500 years of history in the region.