The rural tourism’s development from the conception of people’s education

Abstract

The rural tourism needs the community’s participating in order to guarantee its sustainability and the achievement of its main goals: the client’s satisfaction and the local development with a positive impact on the community. The Popular Education and the participating action research altogether, make possible the direct involvement of the community in identifying their needs, decision making and designs of possible solutions. The purpose of this study is demonstrating the necessity of the community’s empowerment across the Popular Education to develop the rural tourism. The study has achieved key concepts’ systematizing who confirms the systemic approach of the community and the rural tourism. At the same time the study shows how theparticipating action research stimulatesthe community’s motivation and leadership from the collective work to develop the rural tourism.

Keywords

• turismo rural, Investigación Acción-Participación, Educación Popular, comunidad