Desarrollo sostenible del turismo en la Comunidad Shuar Tsuer Entsa, su relación con el territorio y su identidad cultural

Abstract

Since the beginning of the 21st century, according to the United Nations (2015) in its Millennium Development Goals, it considers Community Based Tourism (CBT) as a means of sustainable development whose purpose is to eliminate poverty based on its fundamental pillars: environmental, economic, social and institutional. Although tourism is considered a means of development, it has been shown that not all communities are ready to implement tourist activities when there is no cohesion between the pillars of sustainable development. Therefore, this research seeks to describe the sustainable development of tourism in the Shuar Tsuer Entsa community and how its deterritorialization process and cultural identity influence territorial dynamics. In this way, the present study seeks to understand the reason why the Shuar Tsuer Entsa community, which, in its 20 years of tourism history does not have a sustainable development in the tourism field, and how deterritorialization and cultural identity are related to it, where behaviors such as: paternalism, conformism, alcoholism, little associativity, among others, prevent a proper sustainable tourism development of the community are presented. For it, a methodology with a qualitative approach, exploratory scope and ethnographic design will be used. KEYWORDS: Sustainable development, Territory, Deterritorialization, Cultural Identity, Community Tourism.