Tucum Network
Tucum Network
The Tucum Network is a pioneer project of community-based tourism in Ceará intended to build a relation between society, culture and nature aiming to socio-environmental sustainability.
Whether it’s for the national or international market, Tucum offers a genuine and good quality tourist product, designed to enhance interaction between peoples and cultures, attentive to protecting and valuing cultures and territories, economically integrating the traditional activities and aiming to generate continuous benefits for all the community.
Tucum is formed by communities located on the coast of Ceará and is being built by many hands. Currently, it counts with the participation of ten coastal communities, amongst indigenous people, fishermen and women, rural settlers, two solidarity-based accommodation facilities in Fortaleza, besides three NGO’s that institutionally supports the Network: Terramar Institute (Brazil), Tremembé Association (Italy) and Friends of Prainha do Canto Verde Foundation (Switzerland).
The Network seeks to strengthen the community-based tourism proposal, offering beautiful landscapes allied to social commitment. Together, each community grows strong, fostering the exchange of experiences and cooperation, taking into account the sharing of knowledge and the development of collective strategies for overcoming challenges to be faced.
In this sense, Tucum is structuring strategies and partnerships in order to make progress regarding important features for the development of community-based tourism.
- Capacity-building processes in a perspective of community leadership empowerment and the development of abilities and competences related to the development of tourism;
- Improvement of tourist facilities;
- Improvement of basic infra-structures;
- Development of marketing strategies and promotion of community-based tourist products and services;
- Relations with organizers and travel operators and the trading of community-based and solidarity tourism
- Articulation and exchange with other networks in Brazil and abroad that are building community and solidarity-based tourism;
By joining this experience, in which ethics and solidarity based attitudes among local populations and visitors prevail, you will share another form of tourism, and contribute to the valorization of local identities and cultural production.
The Tucum Networks Objectives
The Tucum Network has two great objectives:
- Promote forms of local tourism offers to guarantee the continuance of traditional populations in their territory (for decades there has been an accented process of expulsion of coastal populations) and the continuity of traditional economic activities, particularly fishing and farming.
- Offer to responsible travelers from around the world, the opportunity to get to know these fascinating locations and the populations that live there.
In sum, living the Tucum Network and community-based tourism is an authentic experience of travel, knowledge and exchange. More than a moment of personal growth, it’s also a place of reflection about the injustices of the planet and about the model of development that feeds it.
