Evaluation of the Tourism Planning Model of the Province of Gualivá: Conflicts and Resistance to Achieve a Comprehensive Approach

Abstract

This article investigates the conflicts arising from territorial tourism planning in rural communities and how different forms of resistance and defense of the territory emerge. The methodological structure was defined from a qualitative approach, the ethnographic method, and documentary analysis, surveys and interviews as research techniques. The findings suggest that the tourism planning process managed by political and economic powers constitutes a form of violence that encourages material and symbolic dispossession. It is concluded that the community has instrumentalized tourism as a means of resistance against global dynamics that seek to homogenize and exploit local resources. The main contribution of this article is that it analyzes social-based tourism as an alternative for the defense of the territory that confronts the inequalities reproduced by disconnecting planning models.