| Autor: |
Ruiz, Esteban, Hernández, Macarena, Coca, Agustín, Cantero, Pedro, Del Campo, Alberto |
| Jazyk: |
English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />French<br />Italian<br />Portuguese |
| Rok vydání: |
2008 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
PASOS Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural, Vol 6, Iss 3, Pp 399-418 (2008) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
1695-7121 |
| Popis: |
The growing impetus of community-based tourism (CBT) as a means of achieving sustainable tourism and a strategy for social development forces us to seek a deeper understanding of this phenomenon. This paper proposes an analytical focus on the community as a theoretical/methodological tactic. The empirical reference point in this research paper is the concept of turismo comunitario (TC) in Ecuador, where five communities were chosen to conduct an in-depth ethnographic study. By means of a conclusion, a comprehensive framework is put forward for TC, founded on three main pillars: the analy-tical centrality of the communities; the consideration of TC as a ‘translation’ rather than an ‘adaptation’ to the market; and the fortifying - rather than debilitating - nature of TC for the communities involved. This provides a series of factors that can be used to gain a general understanding of CBT, from a theore-tical point of view, and which can also be used to evaluate the social viability of CBT projects and expe-riments. |
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