What is it?
Community-based tourism arises from the communities’ perception that it is not enough to simply criticize the conventional tourism model, a generator of socio-territorial segregation, income concentration and socio-environmental problems. Along with criticism, it is essential to experience in person tourism originating from an altogether different logic.
In opposition to the conventional model, community-based tourism puts the local population in effective control over their own development, making them directly responsible for the planning of activities and the management of facilities and tourist services.
All these initiatives are driven by principles that seek to guarantee socio-environmental sustainability, as seen in ethic and solidarity-based relations between local populations and visitors, the equal generation and distribution of income, environmental conservation and the valorization of local production, culture and identities.
Thus, the priority strategies for the creation of visiting routes include moments of experiences with the community, cultural exchange between visitors and local populations and environmental interpretation walks.
In opposition to the conventional model, community-based tourism puts the local population in effective control over their own development, making them directly responsible for the planning of activities and the management of facilities and tourist services.
All these initiatives are driven by principles that seek to guarantee socio-environmental sustainability, as seen in ethic and solidarity-based relations between local populations and visitors, the equal generation and distribution of income, environmental conservation and the valorization of local production, culture and identities.
Thus, the priority strategies for the creation of visiting routes include moments of experiences with the community, cultural exchange between visitors and local populations and environmental interpretation walks.
