Title

Communitarian tourism - Hosts and mediators in Peru

Authors

Authors

E. Zorn;L. C. Farthing

Comments

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Ann. Touris. Res.

Keywords

community; brokers; mediators; indigenous; development; ANTHROPOLOGY; IMPACTS; Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism; Sociology

Abstract

This study provides a long-term, ethnographic assessment of the development, management, and decline of communitarian tourism in the rural Peruvian indigenous community of Taquile Island, focusing on relations between hosts and outsider brokers/mediators. To date, relationships with outsider tour operators and guides have generally been acrimonious due to competition over control of transportation and the type of tourism outsiders have promoted. Nonetheless, Taquile's initiative was at first successful because of help from a hitherto unresearched group of individual foreigners. The study points to the need for further investigation of the potential impact of this type of broker/mediator, particularly visa-vis public-sector investment and development.

Journal Title

Annals of Tourism Research

Volume

34

Issue/Number

3

Publication Date

1-1-2007

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Language

English

First Page

673

Last Page

689

WOS Identifier

WOS:000247868500006

ISSN

0160-7383

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