TOURISM IN A MARGINAL TERRITORY: THE IMPROVEMENT OF HOUSING FAMILY IN THE WAYUU INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY WITH TOURIST PURPOSES (LA GUAJIRA, COLOMBIA)

Paola Andrea Quintero Puentes, University of Barcelona, Spain

The Department of the Guajira is one of the most marginalized of Colombia. 65.2% of population is in poverty situation, condition that affects in greater measurement the Wayuu Indigenous Community that constitutes 44.9% of the total population (DANE, Censo 2005). This paper presents the project of "Adequate and improvement of Wayuu Indigenous Community’s houses with tourist purpose”, which considers like an integral solution to the problems of deficit and bad quality of housing services and lack of economic alternatives for the Wayuu. This initiative reflects the contradictions that tourism development generates an indigenous territory.