Title

Communitarian Tourism Hosts And Mediators In Peru

Keywords

brokers; community; development; indigenous; mediators

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 vis-à-vis public-sector investment and development. © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

7-1-2007

Publication Title

Annals of Tourism Research

Volume

34

Issue

3

Number of Pages

673-689

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2007.02.002

Socpus ID

34249872471 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/34249872471

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