Tourism that empowers?: Commodification and appropriation in Ecuador's Turismo comunitario

Critique of Anthropology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 201-229

  Ruiz Ballesteros, Esteban ^a   Hernández Ramírez, Macarena ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agency; Appropriation; Commodification; Community; Empowerment; Objectification; Turismo comunitario

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953102037     PISSN: 0308275X     EISSN: 14603721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308275X09345426     Document Type: Article

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