COMMUNITY BASED TOURISM AND LOCAL EXPERIENCES. CASE STUDY OF THE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY MARAVILLA, TENEJAPA, CHIAPAS

Abstract

This article discusses the experiences of the residents of Ejido Las Nubes, municipality of Maravilla Tenejapa in an ecotourism project called Green Causes. The results show the no easy effort they make from years ago, with little relevance to the financial aspect, but strength in decision-making, from the organizational innovations in agency capacity for the permanence of the project and conservation of natural resources. Decisions on the project involve a position not only instrumental, but normative, with participatory and consensus. Nothing strange is that this process has generated social learning among This research was conducted from a qualitative and quantitative approach.

Keywords

• Social Capital
• self-management
• local participation
• participatory management.