Equitable tourism

The equitable tourism is a design of the international Tourisme consisting in applying the principles of the Equitable trade to this sector. Still much less developed than the equitable trade, it is practiced by various associations or companies. Their specific ambition is to ensure the communities living on the spot of tourism an equitable share of the incomes which it generates, and to reconcile tourism with their sustainable development. Concretely, that leads to a whole of criteria aiming to the respect of the inhabitants and of their lifestyle, with a true meeting between the tourists and these inhabitants, with the durability of the progress brought by tourism.

The tourist projects are worked out by the communities of reception or at least in narrow partnership with them. These communities take part in a dominating way in the evolution of the activities of the visitors (possibility of modifying them, of reorientating them or of even stopping them).

The French Platform for the equitable trade (PFCE), structure of coordination of the organizations of equitable trade in France, opened with equitable tourism since 2001. It accommodated four structures of equitable tourism (Croq' natural, Djembé, Tourisme and interdependent development, the road of the directions), and worked out a charter of equitable tourism.

Certification " équitable" structures in question does not rest for the moment not on an external and independent control. Four associations in question are - so far - in a step of car-certification. There exists in the world at present one organization which launched out in a true equitable certification resting on criteria and a rigorous control, there acts of Fair Trade in Tourism South Africa.

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