Fonte: El Periplo Sustentable; Núm. 41 (2021): Número Cuarenta y uno; 524 - 547
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Resumo: This paper aims to analyze how the Latin American School criticism Sustainable Tourism, from the approach, that Tourism seems to be a mutation of the traditional mechanisms of domination and control that neoliberal capitalism and the Development Model used to implement in the Third World.
Issues as development extractivism, dispossession, and corrupt development practices, shows how Tourism damage the local communities (society, economic, cultural and environmental components). Also, the criticism underlines that the addition of the sustainable adjective is just a strategy for legitimizing an institutional myth; furthermore, is just an effort to keep the speech in the timeline.
This essay has the goal to show an alternative perspective for the implementation of local sustainable tourism, adding the contributions and reflections that the Latin-American school promotes.
The methodology used is a theoretical and bibliographical review, underlining the main concepts and arguments used against neoliberal sustainable tourism to identify the main issues around tourism and justify the need for new research and proposals consider the contributions of the Latin-American school. This paper has a structure divided into three sections. The first part talks about the Latin American approach, their mains assumptions, the main ideas of the theory, and supports the arguments. The second part describes the consequences of massive tourism and the soft sustainable tourism seems from the neoliberal proposal. And the last section is the reflection about alternatives that consider local people, inclusive participation, and the recovery of local culture, tradition, and heritage. We conclude that tourism requires new management complex models that includes local perspective and development as final objective.
