Food Tourism in Indigenous Settings as a Strategy of Sustainable Development: The Case IfIlex guayusa Loes. in the Ecuadorian Amazon
This paper seeks to contribute to the discussion on how to enhance food tourism inemerging, tropical countries characterized by a large number of indigenous groups and a highbiodiversity. A sacred plant for the Kichwa indigenous communities labelledIlex guayusaLoes.(Aquifoliceae) is used as a case s...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | Ecuador |
| Institución: | Universidad Regional Amazónica |
| Repositorio: | Repositorio Universidad Regional Amazónica |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.ikiam.edu.ec:RD_IKIAM/224 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.3390/su8100967 http://repositorio.ikiam.edu.ec/jspui/handle/RD_IKIAM/224 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Food tourism Indigenous communities Ancestral knowledge Guayusa Biodiversity Kichwa |
| Sumario: | This paper seeks to contribute to the discussion on how to enhance food tourism inemerging, tropical countries characterized by a large number of indigenous groups and a highbiodiversity. A sacred plant for the Kichwa indigenous communities labelledIlex guayusaLoes.(Aquifoliceae) is used as a case study. Twelve recorded interviews with different stakeholders of theAmazon region of Napo in Ecuador were analysed. The results of this qualitative research show thatthe Western-based theory on niche tourism based on experiential and intimacy theory is compatiblewith four principles which are related to the cosmovision (worldview) of Kichwa indigenous groups,namely: mutual learning, empowerment, regulated access to intellectual property and communitylegislation. The framework proposed seems suitable to understand food tourism in an indigenoussetting. Furthermore, the integration of Western-based food tourism with an indigenous cosmovisionmight contribute to a more sustainable land use and more equitable social development. |
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