出版社：Rural Development Institute, Brandon University
摘要：Rural community-based tourism is an increasingly popular way for rural communities in the developing world to preserve their cultural and natural heritage while generating needed income. For this form of tourism to attract sufficient tourist traffic, however, rural communities must attend to tourists’ desire for ‘authenticity’ by carefully staging rurality and community. This article examines how two rural community-based tourism projects in Costa Rica stage, or package their communities for tourist consumption. One project portrays the community as socially cooperative and environmentally conscious, downplaying the growing class tensions and environmental problems that have come to characterize the community. Another project acknowledges community conflicts and environmental degradation but does not fully account for the limits and challenges of rural development. We conclude by discussing the potential of rural community-based tourism to foster economic development in these communities and conversations about the limitations of such development.
关键词：Community-based tourism; rural development; rural community; staged
authenticity; Costa Rica
