Reports concerning ethnotourism: the indigenous community of Choroy-Traigun, a province of Osorno, and its development projects

ABSTRACT IN SPANISH: La expectativa de generar ingresos por la v¡a del turismo est generalizada entre las comunidades ind¡genas del sur de Chile. El turismo, apoyado por instituciones p£blicas y organizaciones no gubernamentales, adquiere proporciones de un relato m gico cuya realizaci¢n traer soluci¢n a los problemas que sobreabundan en comunidades empobrecidas y en las que el bien paisaj¡stico pareciera ser el medio £ltimo para integrarse a la modernidad. Tal relato y las pr cticas generadas en torno suyo han establecido un piso institucional y organizacional que, seg£n sea el curso que tome, determinar la suerte de la poblaci¢n local. La mirada hegem¢nica tiene como contraparte una serie de miradas alternativas desde la comunidad, donde los viajes y los encuentros plantean formas alternativas de hospitalidad que bien pueden o constituirse en proyecto alternativo de desarrollo o ser complementarias a las modalidades actualmente vigentes. La ventaja de los relatos subalternos radica en estar inscritos en un marco de multifuncionalidad que puede subsidiar el profundo vac¡o social que producen los flujos tur¡sticos del rea considerada. // ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: The expectation to generate income through tourism has become generalized among the indigenous communities of the south of Chile. Tourism, supported by the public institutions and non-governmental organizations, has acquired a mythical narrative, whose realization will bring the solutions to the problems that abound in the impoverished communities and through which the landscape capital can become the means to integrate themselves with modernity. Such narrative, and the practices generated around them, has established an institutional and organizational 'bottom line' which, depending on the course that it may take, will determine the fate of the local population. The hegemonic view has as its counterpart a series of alternative views from the community where the travels and the encounters suggest alternative forms of hospitality that could become an alternative development project or be complementary to contemporary methods. The advantage of the subaltern narratives rests in their being inscribed in a framework of multifunctionality that can subsidize the deep social vacuum that is produced by tourism's imprint in the area being considered here.