Chorotega’s Eco-museum of Pottery
This is a community and participatory project, where the community manages its resources and offers touristic services to the visitors. One of the main objectives is the preservation of the millenary pottery tradition of Chorotega. This tradition goes back 4000 years, since the pre-Colombian age. The Eco-museum develops exhibitions, provides guided tours around the territory, food services and educational workshops.
About You
Contact Information
Title
Artesano
First name
Bienvenido
Last name
Chavarría
Your job title
Vicepresidente
Name of your organization
Asociación Ecomuseo de la Artesanía Chorotega, San Vicente de Nicoya.
Organization type
Organización comunitaria.
Annual budget/currency
Presupuesto anual
Mailing address
Costado de la plaza de deportes de San Vicente de Nicoya
Telephone number
2681-1563
Postal/Zip Code
50203
Country
Costa Rica
Email address
Alternative email address
Your idea
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Street Address
San Vicente
City
Nicoya
State/Province
Guanacaste
Postal/Zip Code
50203
Country
Costa Rica
Geotourism Challenge Addressed by Entrant
quality of tourism management by destination leadership , quality of stewardship of the destination.
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
Living culture, Education.
Name Your Project
Chorotega’s Eco-museum of Pottery
Describe Your Idea
This is a community and participatory project, where the community manages its resources and offers touristic services to the visitors. One of the main objectives is the preservation of the millenary pottery tradition of Chorotega. This tradition goes back 4000 years, since the pre-Colombian age. The Eco-museum develops exhibitions, provides guided tours around the territory, food services and educational workshops.
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Deseo postularme.
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Consumidores (viajeros), Operadores de Turismo, Grupos comunitarios autóctonos, Atractivos naturales y culturales.
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Planificación y Gestión de destinos, Innovación y diversificación en el desarrollo de productos turísticos, Estrategias y herramientas innovadoras para la promoción y puesta en mercado de destinos y productos en turismo sostenible y geoturismo..
Innovation
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.
The objective is to manage the cultural and natural resources of San Vicente de Nicoya in a sustainable and participative way, particularly to preserve Chorotega’s pottery tradition.
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.
This is a community and participatory project, where the community manages its resources and offers touristic services to the visitors. One of the main objectives is the preservation of the millenary pottery tradition of Chorotega. This tradition goes back 4000 years, since the pre-Colombian age. The Eco-museum develops exhibitions, provides guided tours around the territory, food services and educational workshops.
Explain in detail why your approach is innovative
This is a community project. The people besides keeping alive a millenary tradition are actors of their own development by managing their natural and cultural resources.
Impact
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?
This is a community project where the actions and decisions are in the hands of the community. The impact is visible through the sale of the artisan products, the number of tourists, and the commitment of the community towards the project and the preservation of the artisan tradition.
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 organization is the hands of the community. The village elects its representatives in the assemblies. A participatory network is build, where the decisions are taken jointly.
How does your program promote traveler enthusiasm, satisfaction, and engagement with the locale?
The visitors are taken to the artisan’s houses and workshops to get to know all the pottery elaboration process, they visit the sites where the materials are extracted and visit the natural attractions.
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.
The visitors live an experience by participating in it. The visitors speak and live with the community and become involve with their achievements and problems.
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Sustainability
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.
• Donations
• Income through the sale of services
Is your initiative financially and organizationally sustainable? If not, what is required to make it so? Is there a potential demand for your innovation?
More training in management of cultural projects and sale of products and services are necessary, as well as funding for infrastructure.
What are the main barriers you encounter in managing, implementing, or replicating your innovation? What barriers keep your program from having greater impact?
• Greater promotion in different national and international media
• Finish the infrastructure work
• Better strategies and tools for the sale of the destination and the touristic products
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.
• To manage a better marketing plan of the destination
• To finish the infrastructure works
The Story
What is the origin of your innovation? Tell the Changemakers and media communities what prompted you to start this initiative.
The Eco-museum was born from the need to protect the artisan tradition and to promote the sustainable development of the community.
Please provide a personal bio. Note this may be used in Changemakers' marketing material.
I’m an artisan; I work with pottery since I was a kid. I have been a communal leader; I work as the President of the communal aqueduct and currently I’m the Vice President of the Eco-Museum Associations of the Chorotega Artisanship.
Describe some unique tourist experiences that your approach provides. Be specific; give illustrative examples.
• Visits to the natural and cultural attractions of the community
• Museographer exhibitions
• Service provided to visitors
• Interaction with the community and participation of the processes of the elaboration of the Chorotega pottery.
What types of partnerships or professional development would be most beneficial in spreading your innovation?
• Community rural tourism
• Community museumology
• Small and medium business
 | 157 weeks agoRonald Martínez-Villarreal submitted this idea. |
