TURISMO SOLIDARIO. Una perspectiva desde la Unión Europea

Abstract

The change in the behavior of the tourists is opening the possibility to create another type of tourism and other tourist destinations. In this paper we analyse ourselves in the concept of solidarity tourism, which is characterized by a bigger interrelation among the two implied communities, the local and the tourists. The first problem that we outline is the difficulty of its conceptualization, since they are several the terms to refer, sometimes, to the same aspect. On the other hand, we show the main initiatives debated in international forums of debate, as well as the existent literature in this field that is approaching this new type of tourism. As main results we indicate a series of reflections based on the investigations (some own ones) carried out and three possible future investigation lines.