Message-ID: <45e59ae7.36ed49ef@aol.com> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 12:57:03 EST From: mailto:AXEOXALA@AOL.COM Subject: Re: Question about South America To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
In a message dated 3/15/1999 11:54:35 AM Eastern Standard Time, mailto:wlg@IHERMES.COM writes:<< eco-tourism in Central or South America. >>
Is eco-tourism the same old thing with a new snappy name, and a different advertising theme - drawing upon same tourists as before, just with new brochure and ecologoical talk?
Does it still turn the lands of people into indigenous disney lands for foreign exoticism hunting tourists who like the idea of being able to say they went on an "eco-tour" instead of just a tour? Does it mean that instead of safari lodges there will be eco-safari lodges? Aside from tourists picking up more trash, what is the substantive change for the indigenous people?
Do they own more of their land - have more control over their lands, or are they still dependent upon tourist leavings for survival? Are they still marginalized - whether by colonizers, elites in their own countries (colonial remnants usually), enviromental "saviours" or domineering tourists?
No comment on any one's personal beliefs or activities, but just wondering if anyone has any articles, experience on this? I saw the email, and my perspective raised such questions for me. Force of habit and nuture.
Nicole