El impacto de la cooperación internacional en el ecoturismo Kuna : un estudio en la perspectiva del decrecimiento

Abstract

Traditionally, tourism in Kuna Yala has been studied through the prism of kuna governance and its resistance to preserve biocultural heritage. In other words, the framework for analyzing the management of kuna tourism has been the long history of indigenous resistance to the policies of acculturation and assimilation of Latin American nation states. The study aims to position kuna tourism management in general, and kuna ecotourism in particular, in the debates animating post-pandemic tourism studies around the concepts of post-development and degrowth. To do this, first, an inventory of the projects/initiatives resulting from international cooperation and carried out in the comarca between 1979 and 2023, was realized. This inventory aimed at observing the types of projects carried out in tourism as well as the kuna autonomy in setting development priorities in relation to international trends. Then, a reading of these projects was made from the perspective of degrowth to conclude or not that there is an alternative development model to growth in kuna tourism sector.

Keywords

• international cooperation
• Kunas
• ecouturism