摘要:This paper is a theoretical exercise in which is searched a comprehension of tourism since Lefebvre hypothesis of a society where the urban dominates and absorbs the rural production, subordinating the former to the latter logic. Firstly, sociohistorical conditions that suggest tourism inbred relation with the urban society are risen. Secondly, considering two classical and dimension distinguished definitions of what is to be the tourist space – those from Miossec (1977) and Boullón (1990) – the understanding of it and that of its production are searched through Santos (1996) Psicoesphere and Tecnosphere categories.