Rural Tourism in Perú

The organization and the services of rural tourism in Peru experience chronic weaknesses, in the matter of definition, production and of efficiency in the distribution. For that reason, she agrees to order this concept in order to include/understand better to this sector; but ahead with a suitable legislation a true promotion of the rural tourism will be able to be confronted.

"rural Tourism". It seemed to be a familiar concept for practically all the countries of the world, in fact they make reference to very different and complex realities. The rural tourism exists, is developed and pleased, because it can be distinguished of "the industrial" tourism and the tourism "of season".

One is a local tourism, of a regional tourism, wished and controlled by companies on human scale, is an encounter tourism, a tourism where one shares. This type of tourism pleases to the urban inhabitants who are to the search of themselves and at a customized answer to its appetite of affective and social recognition more and more. The field, the nature and the ruralidad are not another thing that adapted marks to provide peace and security; while more anxious the city (unemployment, insecurity...) tranquilizes the field more. While more aggressive it is the present, more pleasant it seems to them the past.

One is an alternative tourism, a more intimist tourism. We are before a type of tourism that will allow us to more deeply interact with the surroundings by means of the practice of diverse activities and sports: excursions, routes in bicycles, to horse, or simply the contemplation of the landscapes. These activities will be extended with the Earth workings in the case of the agroturismo, that it brings his own characteristics.

The rural tourism takes to the traveller to the field and to the provinces, giving him the opportunity to know the life another way. The lodging is made in houses of field specially equipped to lodge visitors.

The rural tourism is a tourism of small or medium companies, a type of tourism in where the central and essential element is the host. Hardly a rural tourism organized by great companies can be imagined, to less recruiting and forming disguised farmers to those who the management would be in charge of rural tourist centers. By the way, efficient tourist centers in rural means exist, but these do not enter within the concept of rural tourism since they go to another customer.

All tourist destiny has, in greater or smaller measurement a particular culture that can motivate the displacement of people. The essential of the rural tourism is that it has an attraction of educative nature and the plan to be able to use the cultural and tourist patrimony of the region. The rural tourism in the valley of Lunahuana for example is a potential source of archaeological, biological, natural, gastronomical, mystical, anthropological resources, in sports of adventure, history, biodiversity, geography, popular medicine, etc.

Paullo, 04 of August of the 2005