Will the real rural community please stand up? Staging rural community-based tourism in Costa Rica.
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Abstract
Rural community-based tourism is an increasingly popular way for rural communities in the developing world to preserve their cultural and natural heritage while generating needed income. For this form of tourism to attract sufficient tourist traffic, however, rural communities must attend to tourists’ desire for ‘authenticity’ by carefully staging rurality and community. This article examines how two rural community-based tourism projects in Costa Rica stage, or package their communities for tourist consumption. One project portrays the community as socially cooperative and environmentally conscious, downplaying the growing class tensions and environmental problems that have come to characterize the community. Another project acknowledges community conflicts and environmental degradation but does not fully account for the limits and challenges of rural development. We conclude by discussing the potential of rural community-based tourism to foster economic development in these communities and conversations about the limitations of such development. Keywords: Community-based tourism, rural development, rural community, staged authenticity, Costa Rica ------------------------------------------------- La vraie communauté rurale voudra-t-elle se lever? Organiser le tourisme communautaire rural au Costa Rica. Le tourisme communautaire rural est un moyen de plus en plus populaire pour les communautés rurales des pays en développement de préserver leur patrimoine culturel et naturel tout en générant les revenus nécessaires. Cependant, pour que cette forme de tourisme attire suffisamment de touristes, les communautés rurales doivent répondre au désir d'authenticité des touristes en organisant soigneusement la mise en scène de la ruralité et de la communauté. Cet article examine comment deux projets de tourisme communautaire rural au Costa Rica mettent en scène ou conditionnent leurs communautés pour la consommation touristique. Un projet dépeint la communauté comme coopérative et soucieuse de l'environnement, minimisant les tensions croissantes de classe et les problèmes environnementaux qui caractérisent la communauté. Un autre projet reconnaît les conflits communautaires et la dégradation de l'environnement mais ne tient pas pleinement compte des limites et des défis du développement rural. Nous concluons en discutant du potentiel du tourisme communautaire rural pour favoriser le développement économique de ces communautés et en discutant des limites d'un tel développement. Mots-clés: Tourisme communautaire, développement rural, communauté rurale, authenticité mise en scène, Costa Rica.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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