To cite this version:Amélie Fiorello, Damien Bo. Community-based ecotourism to meet the new tourist's expectations: an exploratory study. ABSTRACTTourism is destructive toward host communities and their natural environment. However, the general attitude of society toward the environment is changing and consequently, people are developing an appreciation for the value of responsible travel. Alternative forms of tourism have been conceived, such as ecotourism, and are viewed as a mean to meet the expectations of the new tourists. Ecotourism is a method to satisfy the concern of new tourists for environmental conservation but it neglects one of the key factors of sustainable tourism today: the host communities. Community-Based Ecotourism (CBET) aims at environmental conservation but it is also a way to empower communities, by allowing them a degree of control over tourism projects and their impacts. This paper reveals the varying degrees of empowerment of host communities provided by community-based ecotourism through a meta-study analysis of six case studies of tourism projects. Not all contemporary tourism projects take local populations into consideration thus the six case studies are nonrandom selections for the purpose of representing the concept embodied in the thesis and showing its appropriateness with the new tourists' expectations.

AUTORA _________________________________________________________________________ 2 MOTS CLÉSDéveloppement durable -Durabilité économique -Tourisme. RESUMENSi bien el turismo puede ser un motor importante de desarrollo económico y social de un destino, también puede ser destructivo. Hoy en día estamos asistiendo a un cambio de mentalidad y aunque el turismo de masas está lejos de desaparecer, un nuevo tipo de consumidor de productos turísticos está apareciendo. El nuevo turista demanda experiencias únicas, el contacto con la población residente, al mismo tiempo que se muestra preocupado por el bienestar de aquélla y por y preservar el medio natural que lo rodea. El ecoturismo comunitario aparece como un proyecto turístico que combina los distintos aspectos del desarrollo sostenible. Este tipo de turismo se puede adaptar tanto a las comunidades rurales de países en desarrollo como a las comunidades rurales de las zonas periféricas de países desarrollados.Estos proyectos se pueden optimizar si se desarrollan a través de clusters de tamaño pequeño o micro-clusters. PALABRAS CLAVEDesarrollo sostenible -Sostenibilidad económica -Turismo. ABSTRACTWhile tourism can be an important driver of economic and social development of a destination can also be destructive. Today we are witnessing a change in mentality and even the mass tourism is far from disappearing, a new type of consumer is emerging tourism products. The new tourist demand unique experiences, contact with the resident population, while he was concerned for the welfare of former and preserve the natural environment and surrounding it. Community Ecotourism appears as a tourism project that combines different aspects of sustainable development.This type of tourism can be adapted both to rural communities in developing REVISTA DE LA SEECI.

International audienceCette recherche exploratoire vise à mieux comprendre ce que recherchent les touristes qui choisissent une forme de voyage durable émergente (l'écotourisme communautaire) et quelles valeurs ils y attribuent. En se basant sur 117 récits de voyages retraçant des expériences d'écotourisme communautaire et en mobilisant le modèle intégrateur de la valeur développé par Aurier, Evrard et N'Goala (2004), nous avons pu faire émerger les dimensions de la valeur les plus importantes pour les touristes qui choisissent de consommer une offre d'écotourisme communautaire. Abstract : This exploratory study aims at understanding what motivates tourists who choose a new form of sustainable tourism (community-based ecotourism) and what values they assign to this consumption. Based on 117 travel stories recounting experiences of community-based ecotourism and mobilizing the integrator value model developed by Aurier, and N'Goala Evrard (2004), we were able to find the most important values for tourist in a community-based ecotourism experience