Month: September 2024

Ethnotourism in Colombia is so sustainable that in the specific case of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the indigenous people of the Wiwa ethnic group have developed a model of Indigenous Tourism in which excursions are made to native communities with indigenous guides. The Gotsezhy Refuge is the Cultural Destination of the Wiwa, where some indigenous people were trained to manage travelers in their territories. At present, all indigenous cultures, in some way or another, they have managed to preserve their culture and customs in the midst of that globalization that, over time, many have been disappearing little by little, either by acculturation, the imposition of religions and state pressure with an education promoted in the Spanish language or the internal conflict in Colombia, alien to the interests of those peoples. Colombia is currently a leader in Latin America in terms of rights for indigenous peoples within their territories, as a result of the new constitution of 1991. "The State recognizes and protects the ethnic and cultural diversity of the Colombian Nation". Art. 7. Constitution of 1991. But it must be admitted that many of these rights are on paper and not in everyday life, so for many it has been a constitution on paper and that this reality is part of the historical abandonment of the State to indigenous peoples since time immemorial. Although, in the Colombian constitution of 1886, the indigenous peoples of Colombia were delegated to the churches to be subjected to a civilizing education and this implied indoctrination leaving aside the millenary practices, in the new constitution this reality changes a little, but there are still many things to improve. Now, the immediate reality that the indigenous communities of Colombia are facing is the tourism industry, where large multinationals have taken over sites that have