Hacia la dimensión ética del turismo de base comunitaria. Gobernanza y emprendimiento social

The study analyzes community-based tourism (CBT) through three dimensions. The first one, a political dimension that implies democratic, inclusive and empowered participation, synthesized as community-driven governance; the second, an economic dimension that can be manifested as social entrepreneurship or community-based entrepreneurship and, finally, an ethical dimension related to the mission of the CBT. In the first part of the work, a definition of CBT is proposed based on its integrating elements and it is determined why the CBT is a community agency with a political, economic and ethical dimension. It is concluded that the CBT as a community agency should aim to promote collective action for the common welfare, as well as sustain, regenerate or strengthen the community itself. This mission constitutes the ethical dimension of any case CBT. Two cases of CBT in Oaxaca, Mexico, are addressed as empirical examples. In the first example, it takes care of the ethical dimension but this is not the case in the second one, so the TBC is lost as a model of tourism.