ABSTRACT
Natural heritage is a central element in the new tourist dynamics. Due to their aesthetic and culinary attributes, wild edible mushrooms are local resources with a high economic and cultural value, which arouse the interest of tourists in knowing the processes of locating, identifying, collecting and preparing these resources. This chapter analyses the relationship between biocultural heritage and mycological tourism. A case study is developed in central Mexico, where biocultural heritage is recreated, used and interpreted for the production of a tourist experience. The study of the relationship between traditional ecological knowledge about mushrooms, on the one hand, and tourism, on the other, opens up a new heritage perspective in terms of the creation of a biocultural heritage in response to the logic of the tourist market.
