Alienation of ethnic minorities in community-based tourism

Vu Manh Cuong

Current Issues in Tourism, 2020, vol. 23, issue 21, 2649-2665

Abstract: The ‘traditional Sa Pa Love market’ of Dzao ethnic minority in Vietnam, had disappeared since the 1990s. What alienated and replaced this traditional culture with modern ones? How can we prevent the same things occurring worldwide? This study draws a research framework bringing major aspects of the ethnic minority’s involvement in tourism through literature review, then use a mixed analysis complex of the interaction processes between ethnic minorities and outsiders to provide patterns of the ethnic minorities’ assimilation. Research findings provide information about the alienation process and disappearance risk of ethnic minorities by the uncritical exhortation for community-based tourism, include: (1) the alienation of native representatives in communitas-based tourism ventures; (2) the paradoxes of the interaction between ethnic minority people and visitors; and (3) the alienation of ethnic-minority people in value production activities. From which, I propose a new methodological model and suggestions to fix the issues of the present community-based tourism, and prevent the alienation of ethnic minorities, especially the vulnerable ones.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2020.1733942

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