Indigenous Tourism in Nueva Ecija: Challenges and Opportunities

Khriz  N. Fernandez,

Indigenous Tourism in Nueva Ecija: Challenges and Opportunities

Discipline: tourism, transport and travel

Abstract:

Indigenous tourism played an essential role to help build local and national economy. It served as the spine of every municipality which hold attracting tourism sites. Hence, indigenous tourism as emerging tourism attraction also held a frontier of economic power that help boost local economy. It was concluded that ICCs/IPs encountered certain challenges as to cultural sensitivity, economic stability and environmental preservation which hampered the continued development of indigenous tourism. Meanwhile, the results also showed that in spite of these challenges, opportunities were also seen in which, indigenous tourism provided wider avenues for the development of ICCs/IPs way of living through creation of more employment and business opportunities which helped them generate more income to meet their needs. Conclusively, indigenous tourism in the province empowered ICCs/IPs cultural, environmental and economic opportunities.

References:

Aguila, G. M., & Ragot, R. (2019). Ecotourism Industry in Ilijan Batangas City, Philip-pines: Assessing Its Effects as a Basis of Proposed Tourism Development Plan. In-ternational Multidisciplinary Research Journal, 3(1), 118–126. https://doi.org/10.54476/iimrj274
Marshall, V. (2021). Indigenous ontologies in ‘caring for country’: Indigenous Austral-ia’s Sustainable Customs, practices and Laws. Clan and Tribal Perspectives on Social, Economic and Environmental Sus-tainability, 23–32. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78973-365-520211004
Trawick, P. (2019). Scarcity, equity, and trans-parency: General principles for success-fully governing the Water Commons. Mountains: Sources of Water, Sources of Knowledge, 43–61. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6748-8_
Manzoor, F., Wei, L., Asif, M., Haq, M. Z., & Rehman, H. ur. (2019). The contribution of sustainable tourism to economic growth and employment in Pakistan. In-ternational Journal of Environmental Re-search and Public Health, 16(19), 3785. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16193785
Mansperger, M. (2015). Tourism and cultural change in small-scale societies. Human Organization, 54(1), 87–94. https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.54.1.7267083246053882
Nielsen, N., & Wilson, E. (2012). From invisible to indigenous-driven: A critical typology of research in Indigenous Tourism. Jour-nal of Hospitality and Tourism Manage-ment, 19(1), 67–75. https://doi.org/10.1017/jht.2012.6 6.
Reeves, J. (2020). Tourism and Sustainable Development Goals: Research on Sus-tainable tourism geographies. Tourism and Sustainable Development Goals, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429324253-1
Richards, G. (2018). Cultural tourism: A review of recent research and Trends. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 36, 12–21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhtm.2018.03.005
Sinclair, D. (2017). Developing indigenous tourism: Challenges for the guianas. In-ternational Journal of Contemporary Hos-pitality Management, 15(3), 140–146. https://doi.org/10.1108/09596110310470158
Smith, V. L. (2016). The four hs of tribal tour-ism: Acoma — a pueblo case study. Pro-gress in Tourism and Hospitality Re-search, 2(34), 295–306. https://doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1099-1603(199609)2:3/4<295::aid-pth55>3.3.co;2-5
Sofield, T. H. (2017). The market perspective of Indigenous Tourism: Opportunities for Business Development. Tourism and In-digenous Peoples, 91–101. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780080553962-15
Stinson, M. J., Hurst, C. E., & Grimwood, B. S. R. (2022). Tracing the materiality of recon-ciliation in tourism. Annals of Tourism Re-search, 94, 103380. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2022.103380
Ulloa, A. (2017). Perspectives of environmen-tal justice from Indigenous Peoples of Latin America: A relational indigenous environmental justice. Environmental Justice, 10(6), 175–180. https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2017.0017
Weaver, D. (2017). Indigenous tourism stages and their implications for Sustainability. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 18(1), 43–60. https://doi.org/10.1080/09669580903072001
Whitford, M., & Ruhanen, L. (2019). Indige-nous tourism research, past and present: Where to from here? Sustainable Tourism and Indigenous Peoples, 14–33. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315112053-2.
Zhou, J., & Edelheim, J. R. (2023). “ethnic mi-nority tourism” and “Indigenous tourism”: The critical distinction. Tourism Culture & Communication, 23(1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.3727/109830422x16510695152064