Turismo urbano ¿comunitario? Experiencias en barrios populares de la ciudad de Buenos Aires

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss the concept of community-based tourism, inquiring about its particularities in urban spaces, its promotion and/or management by other actors outside the communities, and its impact on historically relegated territories. For this, two case studies will be taken as references: “La Vivera Orgánica” and the “Patio Gastronómico Rodrigo Bueno” in the neighborhood of the same name, and Ajayu, in the Mugica-Villa 31 neighborhood. Based on ethnographic investigation including interviews with members from the communities and the governmental agencies, as well as tours assistance and participation in meetings, it can be pointed out that the complexity of the links of both projects with the agencies lead to different types of alliances and strategies of the actors implicated in the concretion and development of tourism in the territory.