| For a few decades, one has witnessed a growth of tourist displacements, accompanied by a democratization by the customers but this evolution unfortunately created little by little damage in term of pollution due to transport, and in term of economic and cultural upheavals between North and the South. As of the Fifties, certain operators ended up being alarmed and started to think of a better balance of the relations. Thus was born the idea from equitable tourism which was inspired directly by the principles of the trade of the same name |
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Definition of equitable tourism Equitable tourism is a whole of activities and services, proposed by tourist operators with travellers responsible, and worked out by the communities of reception, autochtones (or at least mainly with them). These communities take part in a dominating way in the evolution of the definition of these activities (possibility of modifying them, of reorientating them, of stopping them). They also take part in their continuous management to a significant degree (by limiting to the maximum the intermediaries not adhering to these principles equitable tourism). The social, cultural and financial benefit of these activities must be perceived mainly locally, and equitably divided between the members of the indigenous population. Can one control tourism per hour of universalization? Click here for complete information. |
| Engagements of the actors of equitable tourism The various actors of this die of equitable tourism and in particular the organizations which ensure the promotion and the sale of the products of this die, can be regarded as actors of equitable tourism if they respect at least following engagements: 1 Partnership 1a/In an interdependent approach of tourism, the communities of reception, the service providers local and the organizations of promotion and sale of the stays work in partnership on the long run. They develop the specific of each one by integrating social costs as well as possible and environmental contributions. 1b/They equitably divide between them the fruits of their activities undertaken in complementarity. 2 concerted Contractualisation 2a/All the recipients must be consulted on the development projects tourist (including the communities resident not directly implied in the realization of the tourist activities being held on their territory), and this before the establishment of service contracts respecting at least the fundamental social rights (convention of the International organization of Work), and any local regulation of use more protective for the workers. 2b/the establishment of the prices of the services, and in particular of remunerations of the people receiving benefits, is the subject of an equitable negotiation process, in particular integrating the respect of a nonunfair competition towards the local people receiving benefits. In the same way, an adapted installment, even the integral payment advances some, can be versed to the local person receiving benefits if this one does not have the sufficient working capital enabling him to peacefully cover by itself the expenses related to the service. 3 Local development 3a/the tourist activities suggested locally must be thought and managed to contribute directly to the sustainable development of the communities and territories of reception. 3b/the benefit drawn from these tourist activities, in particular those of the organizations of promotion and sale, are reinvested mainly in development actions room controlled by the communities of reception. 4 Transparency 4a/the transparency of the modes of decisions, the financial affairs and the general accounts relative to all the activities is a characteristic impossible to circumvent of equitable tourism. It is this transparency which makes it possible all the recipients to take part indeed in the debates, and which validates the equity of the various decisions. 4b/this transparency includes also information of quality of the tourists before their stay. This information relates at the same time on a realistic description of the contents of the services suggested (the tourist marketing based on the “sale of a dream” to the tourist must be banished) and to a sensitizing to the particular step of equitable tourism. 4c/Enfin this transparency general must allow the control of the respect of engagements for each actor declaring his activity equitable. This control which can be carried out by any person or organization external with the organization. 5 responsible Travellers 5a/the traveller who chooses this form of tourism is a responsible consumer who became aware that its attitude and its acts on the spot can be for the populations of reception as much a factor of development that an element destabilizer. Consequently, it is committed being been keeping of any attitude and any intervention which could upset social, cultural and ecological balances of the communities of reception and would come to thwart their dynamic development. In particular it prohibits any gift and direct intervention on the place which would not be placed under the control of the persons in charge of the communities of reception. Source Croqnature Association |
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