Their main complaint: tourists behaviour, and that only a fraction of the money they spend trickles down to the indigenous.
What a tourist may consider polite curiosity about indigenous culture can seem to some here intrusive and even an attempt to gain sacred tribal wisdom.
We don't like it when they ask members of the community about our traditional knowledge and the medicines we possess
Reply to this A common concern among indigenous leaders is that local children are adopting the outsiders' ways, with many children more comfortable in "western" dress and listening to the imported music of reggaeton and Colombia's vallenato.
I believe this is the reason Bhutan narrow the number of tourists it accepts by mandating a high daily minimum spend.
It does make you wonder whether it would be possible for a locally based collective to balance the wishes of the locals and tourists. In the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, one must pay a fee to a village to enter - it goes directly to the village and a local villager escorts the traveller around the village; but even this may not see the elimination of the behaviour that the residents of Nazareth find so objectionable.
Reply to this This speaks directly to the notions of the perceived "right" of the traveler/tourist/individual to have unfettered access to any part of the globe and the ethics of mobility.
I think Phipps touches on this when exploring the tourist/terrorist dichotomy. While defining the tourist almost as an "innocent abroad" (in direct contrast to other forms of global movement intent on terrorist/intelligence gathering/etc) by conceiving everything in terms of its consumptive value, he argues they/we are inevitably caught up in the dynamic of global exploitation.
Most curiously, it often appears that when local communities attempt to profit from access offered to visitors, they are perceived as less 'authentic' thus losing much of the luster that lures the tourist there in the first place.
Reply to this It is pleasing that one community has made a decision to take control. I hope that, in due course, they consider how they might turn the interest of tourists to their advantage. Many others have worked out ways of benefiting without also having to deal with the adverse impact.
Not sure though that they will ever be able to keep a lid on their kids. So many parents have tried this and so many have failed, thankfully.
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