Abstract

VELEZ RIVAS, Martha Lucía. Colombian Amazon Rain Forest: Tourism and Social Imaginaries of an Exoticized Territory. Cuad. Geogr. Rev. Colomb. Geogr. [online]. 2017, vol.26, n.2, pp.113-131. ISSN 0121-215X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rcdg.v26n2.59229.

The article’s aim is to understand the social imaginaries constructed for the Colombian Amazon rain forest and their influence on the tourist experience. The flow of tourists attracted to this jungle territory, mainly inhabited by indigenous communities that are at the same time, object and subject of tourism, has increased significantly. The tourist experience is permeated by imaginaries built through stories, narratives and images produced by literature, cinema and art, as well as from the stories associated with the tourism: guides, blogs, advertising, postcards, maps, brochures and web pages. This article presents a theoretical and conceptual approach to the social imaginaries and their relationship with the touristic experience in the Amazon.

Keywords : Amazon; alterity; touristic experience; social imaginaries; tourism.

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