Developing Sustainable Tourism practices in Latin America

1. Developing Sustainable Tourism Practices and
Policies in Indigenous Communities of
Mexico, Ecuador, and Chile

2. ‘Indigenous people are the existing descendants of the
original people inhabiting a particular region or
country’ (BSR, 2003)
Sustainable tourism is tourism attempting to
make as low impact on the environmental local
culture as possible, while helping to generate
future employment for local people.
(Weaver, 2006)

3. • Linkage the tourism industry sub-sectors connect
with each other (economically)
• Leakage the proportion of the tourism spending
that accrues outside the destination
• Multiplier a measure of secondary effects of a
tourists’ spending

4. Research Objectives
• Analyze linkages between indigenous
people, ecotourism and sustainable development
• Identify drivers and barriers to MSE participation by
using the value-chain analysis
• Develop an outline of lessons learned from the
fieldwork research and analyze what may be relevant
to others in Latin America.

5. Research Sites
Country: Mexico
State: Hidalgo
Indigenous peoples: Hña Hñu
Case studies:
1. The Grand Canyon Ecoalberto
2. Xoxafi Caves

6. Country: Ecuador
Location: Tena, Napo
Province,
Amanzon
Indigenous peoples:
Kichwas
Case studies:
1. Chuva Urku Community
2. Machacuyaku

7. Country: Chile
Location: Puyehue National Park
Lakes Region, the Andes
Indigenous peoples: Huiliche-Mapuche
Case studies:
1. Mawidan-Chen Community
2. Calfuco Las Parras Community

8. Value-chain Framework
Value-chain describes all activities involved in
producing a good or service and bringing to
consumption (Ashley and Mitchell, 2008).
Small farmers
Food processers
Fruit + vegetables + wholesales
Support institutions

9. Value-chain Analysis Framework
Pre-arrival Transport Hospitality Attraction
Service Service

10. Research methods
1. Mapping the Value-chain (value-chain
analysis)
2. Analyze linkages
3. Assessing barriers

11. “The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth”
Chief Seattle