Life Experience Tourism in Native Communities

The native communities of the Satipo province of Junin are mainly located in the basins of Ene, Perene and Tambo rivers. Most of the 420 communities that live there are under extreme poverty conditions. The poverty, the analphabets, and the political violence that hit the region in the 90’s have generated a low level of socio economic development. The wood extractive companies have taken advantage of this situation and have offered very low prices for the virgin forests, which are the home of several animals and complex ecosystems; also the forests serve as air-purifiers because they capture the carbon dioxide. All these problems have caught the attention of several people and ...

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First name

Shabeta

Last name

Tours

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Name of your organization

Shabeta Tours

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Presupuesto anual

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Perú

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Jiron Ruben Callegari Nro. 232

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Código Pos

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Perú

Geotourism Challenge Addressed by Entrant

Quality of tourist experience and educational benefit to tourists , Quality of benefit to residents for the destination , Quality of tourism management by destination leadership .

Organization size

Small (1 to 100 employees)

Indicate sector in which you principally work

Community Organization

Year innovation began

2007

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Indicate sector in which you principally work

Nature, Indigenous people, Adventure.

Name Your Project

Life Experience Tourism in Native Communities

Describe Your Idea

The native communities of the Satipo province of Junin are mainly located in the basins of Ene, Perene and Tambo rivers. Most of the 420 communities that live there are under extreme poverty conditions. The poverty, the analphabets, and the political violence that hit the region in the 90’s have generated a low level of socio economic development. The wood extractive companies have taken advantage of this situation and have offered very low prices for the virgin forests, which are the home of several animals and complex ecosystems; also the forests serve as air-purifiers because they capture the carbon dioxide. All these problems have caught the attention of several people and ...

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Deseo postularme.

Si perteneces a un pais de Latinoamerica y el Caribe tienes la oportunidad de presentar tu iniciativa para acceder a fondos para innovaciones en turismo sostenible del BID/FOMIN (para mayor informacion leer la seccion sobre la oportunidad BID/FOMIN en la pagina principal del Desafio).

Operadores de Turismo, Grupos comunitarios autóctonos, Atractivos naturales y culturales.

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Profesionalización, buenas prácticas y certificación de servicios turísticos sostenibles.

Innovación

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What is the goal of your innovation? Please describe in one sentence the kind of impact, change, or reform your approach is intended to achieve.

Develop life experience tourism in native communities, improving their quality of life and without changing the environment.

Please write an overview of your project. Include how your approach supports or embodies geotourism or destination stewardship. This text will appear when people scroll over the icon for your entry on the map located on the competition homepage.

The native communities of the Satipo province of Junin are mainly located in the basins of Ene, Perene and Tambo rivers. Most of the 420 communities that live there are under extreme poverty conditions. The poverty, the analphabets, and the political violence that hit the region in the 90’s have generated a low level of socio economic development. The wood extractive companies have taken advantage of this situation and have offered very low prices for the virgin forests, which are the home of several animals and complex ecosystems; also the forests serve as air-purifiers because they capture the carbon dioxide. All these problems have caught the attention of several people and institutions linked with the environment; one of them is SHABETA AND TOURS, who after understanding the problematic, has projected to develop LIFE EXPERIENCE TOURISM IN NATIVE COMMUNITIES. The project will have bungalows located in the visit area; it will also have zoo breeding places of native species with the objective of repopulating and then commercializing the plants. All of these will improve the quality of life of the affected population.

Explain in detail why your approach is innovative

Because the tourism offered by Shabeta and Tours is going to allow the visitor to learn the experiences, costumes, culture, idiosyncrasy of places that are preserved as thousands of years ago; virgin forests where men still coexist with nature as part of it and not as the destroyer of everything that surrounds him. On the contrary, indigenous populations of the area are becoming aware of what they have, and how to conserve and recuperate it slowly. This happens thanks to one of our objectives: the zoo breeding places of native species, where the inhabitants will have a direct participation. All of these will improve the life quality of the local indigenous population without altering their surroundings.

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Describe the degree of success you have had to date. How do you measure, both quantitatively and qualitatively, the impact on sustainability or enhancement of local culture, environment, heritage, or aesthetics? How has it transformed or contributed to the power of place or demonstrated the sustainability of tourism? How does your approach minimize negative impacts?

Up until now, our success rate is very low due to economic problems, lack of advertising and maintenance of the area. We have achieved 35% of our objectives, but our visitors have received all the services and the necessary information to be emissaries of our innovation around the world. With all these efforts, the indigenous people are more aware of their belongings and will preserve them for future generations.

In what ways are local residents actively involved in your work, including participation and community input? How has the community responded to or benefited from your approach?

The population of the native communities lives in extreme poverty. The social support of the central government is ridiculous. The native people participate of the activities developed; they serve as guides in their territory, they offer their agriculture and artisan products to the visitors, and with the building of the new zoo breeding place they will be more committed with our cause.

How does your program promote traveler enthusiasm, satisfaction, and engagement with the locale?

The program shows the visitants that there are still places in the world where man haven’t affected nature. Nature keeps its course like thousands of years ago. The indigenous have learned to coexist with the environment in a direct symbiosis, where each one takes advantage of the other without destroying themselves. All of these contribute to a different concept of life experience tourisms (geo tourism).

Describe how your work helps travelers and local residents better understand the value of the area's cultural and natural heritage, and educates them on local environmental issues.

We explain to the visitants and the local residents – through brochures, pamphlets, and other written and audiovisual material – our mission, vision and the objectives we aim to pursue through the activities developed.

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Sustenibilidad

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How is your initiative currently financed? If available, provide information on your finances and organization that could help others. Please list: Annual budget, annual revenue generated, size of part-time, full-time and volunteer staff.

Shabeta and tours is a micro-enterprise that is dedicated to provide life experience touristic services, mainly with foreign tourists. Another aspect of our business is to buy and export insects, butterflies, and other species that are legally allowed by the Ministry of the Environment. Currently, a zoo breeding place is under construction, which will repopulate the vulnerable species.

Is your initiative financially and organizationally sustainable? If not, what is required to make it so? Is there a potential demand for your innovation?

Yes, because in the last few years, life experience tourism (geo tourism) has experienced a considerable increased demand parallel to the increased depredation of our forests. This generates the extinction of more species and directly affect our every day lives.

What are the main barriers you encounter in managing, implementing, or replicating your innovation? What barriers keep your program from having greater impact?

The main barriers are: economic and financial, the lack of awareness or knowledge of the local inhabitants to preserve the great biodiversity that they posses, the lack of interest of the public and private institutions linked with the environmental sector, the lack of contact of the local inhabitants with the rest of society – which contributes to their fear or rejection of foreigners -, the lack of dissemination of this new version of life experience tourism (geo tourism). Among all these barriers the one that doesn’t allow us to achieve a greater impact is the economic and financial barrier. For this project to work at 100% we need the economic and financial support of organizations and institutions interested in recuperating and conserving our environment.

What is your plan to expand or further develop your approach? Please indicate where/how you would like to grow or enhance your innovation, or have others do so.

Shabeta and tours by developing this project aims to be a nucleus of expansion and a role model for other tourism institutions. In the future we want to partner and articulate with this other tourism institution and become an association or federation that develops greater projects. In this way, more indigenous populations will benefit and greater extensions of forests will be conserved, diminishing the impact of deforestation, illegal traffic of wild animals, in few worlds to recuperate the biodiversity.

La historia

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Please provide a personal bio. Note this may be used in Changemakers' marketing material.

Shabeta and tours started working legally on May 23rd of 2007 in Satipo city. Mr. Rene Salas Ramirez is the general manager. This small business has as an objective: to promote life experience tourism - mainly within native communities -, guided tours, excursions, and other activities of travel agencies.

What is the origin of your innovation? Tell the Changemakers and media communities what prompted you to start this initiative.

The lack of interest demonstrated towards respecting the environment, even knowing the importance of its conservation. The people and institutions that are linked to this sector do nothing or very little. The government doesn’t emphasize in the protection of the few virgin forests that we have left, and in the benefit that one can obtain when protecting them instead of destroying them. There are species that are already extinguished and we didn’t learn about them, and others that are on their way to extinction. Besides, the indigenous people don’t know all the potential that surrounds them. The lack of knowledge makes them easy preys of the extractive companies and the hunters of native species, who take advantage of the ingenuity of the indigenous people and don’t measure the consequences of creating disequilibrium of the ecosystems. At the end, the only ones affected are the local people. When the companies finish extracting and hunting everything, they will leave the area poorer than how they found it. After observing this problematic, change is necessary, Shabeta and tours is a business that is doing everything to protect and slowly recover the few virgin forests that are left by developing ecotourism and through the zoo breeding places. That way the affected families will improve their quality of life and ours too, since the forests allow us to have a purified environment.

Describe some unique tourist experiences that your approach provides. Be specific; give illustrative examples.

• Building of bungalows, inside the touristic sites, with local materials, to better enjoy nature
• Touristic circuits inside the native communities.
• Building zoo breeding places of native species to later re-introduce them into the forests
• Workshops and training centers of geo tourism
• Natural Research Center for visitants interested in studying the flora and fauna of the area.

What types of partnerships or professional development would be most beneficial in spreading your innovation?

Since globalization of the world is a fact and one can instantly know what is happening in China or Russia thanks to the Internet, the innovation that will benefit us the most is to create a website. That way, everybody will be able to know about our services.

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