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Social Use through Tourism of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Amazonian Kichwa Nationality

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  • Claudia Patricia Maldonado-Erazo

    (Facultad de Recursos Naturales, Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo-ESPOCH, Riobamba 060155, Ecuador)

  • María de la Cruz del Río-Rama

    (Business Management and Marketing Department, Faculty of Business Sciences and Tourism, University of Vigo, 32004 Ourense, Spain)

  • Erica Estefanía Andino-Peñafiel

    (Facultad de Recursos Naturales, Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo-ESPOCH, Riobamba 060155, Ecuador)

  • José Álvarez-García

    (Departamento de Economía Financiera y Contabilidad, Instituto Universitario de Investigación Para el Desarrollo Territorial Sostenible (INTERRA), Universidad de Extremadura, 10071 Cáceres, Spain)

Abstract

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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  • Claudia Patricia Maldonado-Erazo & María de la Cruz del Río-Rama & Erica Estefanía Andino-Peñafiel & José Álvarez-García, 2023. "Social Use through Tourism of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Amazonian Kichwa Nationality," Land, MDPI, vol. 12(3), pages 1-20, February.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jlands:v:12:y:2023:i:3:p:554-:d:1079646
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    1. Claudia Patricia Maldonado-Erazo & Nancy P. Tierra-Tierra & María de la Cruz del Río-Rama & José Álvarez-García, 2021. "Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage: The Amazonian Kichwa People," Land, MDPI, vol. 10(12), pages 1-20, December.
    2. Liting Zhou & Fei Ouyang & Yang Li & Jieling Zhan & Nadeem Akhtar & Muhammad Ittefaq, 2022. "Examining the Factors Influencing Tourists’ Destination: A Case of Nanhai Movie Theme Park in China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(18), pages 1-19, September.
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