Communitarian tourism - Hosts and mediators in Peru

    Authors

    E. Zorn;L. C. Farthing

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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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