Have you ever heard of Community-Based Tourism?
Community-based tourism is the type of tourism in which the local community organizes itself and provides services to visitors/tourists, such as working as a local guide, offering accommodation, eating local products, selling handicrafts and typical foods.
This local organization enables the growth of small entrepreneurs and cooperatives that embrace collectives and minorities, focusing on the active involvement and participation of local communities in the development and management of tourist activities in their areas.
This form of tourism is very positive. For communities, it opens up an umbrella of possibilities, facilitating courses and training that professionalize everyone, thus increasing the resources they can count on. For tourists and visitors it is the best way to get to know the local culture, in a much deeper and more authentic immersion.
For us at Slow, it is a respectful fusion between the deep knowledge that communities pass on from generation to generation and the way of taking this information to the visiting public, which we support and encourage.
An excellent example is @uakarilodge, a line of action of the Mamirauá Institute's Community-Based Tourism Program, which is administered through shared management between the Mamirauá Institute and the communities of the Mamirauá Reserve. An association, AAGEMAM (Association of Ecotourism Assistants and Guides of Mamirauá), was created by the residents themselves in order to organize tourism management and strengthen community organization.
Another example is FLONA de Tefé, a collective made up of six communities from Flona de Tefé, which extract natural products from the forest and practice ecotourism.
These are just two examples of the many that we identify with and work together with Slow & Steady Travel. We believe this is the way.
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