Social Use through Tourism of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Amazonian Kichwa Nationality
The traditional trend in heritage management focuses on a conservationist strategy, i.e., keeping heritage in a good condition while avoiding its interaction with other elements. This condition results in the link between heritage and tourism to be established as juxtaposed process, which gives rise...
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| author | Claudia Patricia Maldonado-Erazo María de la Cruz del Río-Rama Erica Estefanía Andino-Peñafiel José Álvarez-García |
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| description | The traditional trend in heritage management focuses on a conservationist strategy, i.e., keeping heritage in a good condition while avoiding its interaction with other elements. This condition results in the link between heritage and tourism to be established as juxtaposed process, which gives rise to the need to broaden the concept of heritage and how it can be used through tourism to contribute to the local development of communities. The objective of this study is to show the different mechanisms of social use that the intangible cultural heritage of the different peoples and nationalities of Ecuador can have. For this purpose, the San Antonio de Killu Yaku community, parish of Puerto Napo, canton Tena, Napo province, is taken as a case study, based on an analysis of the current situation of tourism in the community. The cultural resources of the territory are taken as a starting point to transform them into tourist attractions for the construction of a thematic heritage space, in order to minimize the concern about the erosion and lack of appreciation of the ancestral manifestations and knowledge that the nationality possesses, due to the accelerated globalization of society. The analysis corresponds to a descriptive process of all the information collected with the proposed exploitation mechanisms through tourism activities. During the process, an increase in the exchange of knowledge was shown, as well as a constant cultural insurgency in which people maintain themselves to safeguard their cultures. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d33343293aab449aa2a3de70c6f43a622023-11-17T12:06:07ZengMDPI AGLand2073-445X2023-02-0112355410.3390/land12030554Social Use through Tourism of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Amazonian Kichwa NationalityClaudia Patricia Maldonado-Erazo0María de la Cruz del Río-Rama1Erica Estefanía Andino-Peñafiel2José Álvarez-García3Facultad de Recursos Naturales, Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo-ESPOCH, Riobamba 060155, EcuadorBusiness Management and Marketing Department, Faculty of Business Sciences and Tourism, University of Vigo, 32004 Ourense, SpainFacultad de Recursos Naturales, Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo-ESPOCH, Riobamba 060155, EcuadorDepartamento de Economía Financiera y Contabilidad, Instituto Universitario de Investigación Para el Desarrollo Territorial Sostenible (INTERRA), Universidad de Extremadura, 10071 Cáceres, SpainThe traditional trend in heritage management focuses on a conservationist strategy, i.e., keeping heritage in a good condition while avoiding its interaction with other elements. This condition results in the link between heritage and tourism to be established as juxtaposed process, which gives rise to the need to broaden the concept of heritage and how it can be used through tourism to contribute to the local development of communities. The objective of this study is to show the different mechanisms of social use that the intangible cultural heritage of the different peoples and nationalities of Ecuador can have. For this purpose, the San Antonio de Killu Yaku community, parish of Puerto Napo, canton Tena, Napo province, is taken as a case study, based on an analysis of the current situation of tourism in the community. The cultural resources of the territory are taken as a starting point to transform them into tourist attractions for the construction of a thematic heritage space, in order to minimize the concern about the erosion and lack of appreciation of the ancestral manifestations and knowledge that the nationality possesses, due to the accelerated globalization of society. The analysis corresponds to a descriptive process of all the information collected with the proposed exploitation mechanisms through tourism activities. During the process, an increase in the exchange of knowledge was shown, as well as a constant cultural insurgency in which people maintain themselves to safeguard their cultures.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/12/3/554thematic heritage spaceAmazonian Kichwa Nationalitycultural heritageintangible heritagecultural resourcessocial use |
| spellingShingle | Claudia Patricia Maldonado-Erazo María de la Cruz del Río-Rama Erica Estefanía Andino-Peñafiel José Álvarez-García Social Use through Tourism of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Amazonian Kichwa Nationality Land thematic heritage space Amazonian Kichwa Nationality cultural heritage intangible heritage cultural resources social use |
| title | Social Use through Tourism of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Amazonian Kichwa Nationality |
| title_full | Social Use through Tourism of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Amazonian Kichwa Nationality |
| title_fullStr | Social Use through Tourism of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Amazonian Kichwa Nationality |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social Use through Tourism of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Amazonian Kichwa Nationality |
| title_short | Social Use through Tourism of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Amazonian Kichwa Nationality |
| title_sort | social use through tourism of the intangible cultural heritage of the amazonian kichwa nationality |
| topic | thematic heritage space Amazonian Kichwa Nationality cultural heritage intangible heritage cultural resources social use |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/12/3/554 |
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