This short essay discusses three fundamental concepts of the new paradigm of tourism_ the cultural tourism and the tourism of nature, which we define conceptually as environmental tourism:

The common conceptual framework to design the identity (conceptual category) of Cultural Tourism and their subdivision in multiple segments have the consensus of academy and is adequate to represent the phenomenology of cultural tourism?

The concepts of Route and Circuit are indeterminate or must be building on the basis on a matrix of interdisciplinary science, economical sustainability, ethical and esthetical intersection?

The economy of tourism is a new field of traditional market economy or the products of Cultural Tourism and Tourism of Nature in the market competition have a strange behavior, announcing then rising of an autonomous and distinctive branch of economy?

We finish our theoretical exercise applying those concepts, on a critical perspective, to the case study of Cordoba destination of Human Heritage, restructuring tourism for more competitiveness and productivity (and sustainability).

Paradigm. Categories (Types) of tourism. Cultural Management. Route and Circuit. Human heritage