%0 Journal Article
%T Community
%A Antonio Aledo Tur
%A Francisco Javier Ull¨¢n de la Rosa
%A Hugo Garc¨ªa Andreu
%J Latin American Perspectives
%@ 1552-678X
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0094582X17702359
%X Community-based tourism is advocated by indigenous organizations and leftist actors throughout Latin America as a tool for furthering their political and cultural agenda. The ideological biases and structural weaknesses of this model become apparent in a case study of the fishing village of Prainha do Canto Verde, Brazil. The communitarian agenda currently being implemented by means of the community-based tourism project in Prainha is based upon an ideological construct and being imposed through political engineering upon what is simply a local segment of Brazilian rural society. As a result, it is encountering strong resistance. There is also structural tension between the inevitable sociocultural change caused by the development of tourism and the rigidity and essentialism of a community-based tourism model offering a ¡°traditional way of life¡± as a touristic product. The model is ultimately conflictual and unstable, and there is serious doubt about its long-term sustainability. Organiza£¿£¿es ind¨ªgenas e institui£¿£¿es de esquerda defendem o turismo comunit¨¢rio na Am¨¦rica Latina como forma de apoio ¨¤s suas agendas pol¨ªticas e culturais. Contudo, a fragilidade estrutural e o preconceito ideol¨®gico desse modelo tornam-se aparente no caso de uma vila de pesca em Prainha do Canto Verde, no Brasil. A agenda comunit¨¢ria hoje implementada por meio do projeto de turismo comunit¨¢rio em Prainha baseia-se em constru£¿£¿o ideol¨®gica e ¨¦ imposta por meio de engenharia pol¨ªtica do que consiste somente de um segmento local da sociedade rural brasileira. Consequentemente, essa agenda encontra forte resist¨ºncia. Demais, h¨¢ tens£¿o estrutural entre as mudan£¿as culturais inevit¨¢veis, causadas pelo desenvolvimento do turismo, e a rigidez e essencialismo do modelo de turismo comunit¨¢rio que oferece ¡°um estilo de vida tradicional¡± como produto tur¨ªstico. O modelo ¨¦ fundamentalmente conflitante e inst¨¢vel, suscitando d¨²vidas quanto ¨¤ sua sustentabilidade a longo prazo
%K Closed corporate societies
%K Communitarianism
%K Community-based tourism
%K Indigenous movements
%K Social change
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0094582X17702359