Tourism causing trouble: Commercialising Costa Rica’s last tribe
Since the 1970s, there has been great effort in the Americas to conserve indigenous cultures and communities not totally displaced through colonisation, but now rapidly shrinking due to globalisation. Costa Rica is one such country in which tourism initiatives have been developed in an attempt to conserve one of the last indigenous communities – the Boruca community. Nowadays only 2.4% of Costa Rica’s population is indigenous, representing just 120,000 people, and they are dispersed among the 24 indigenous communities around the country.
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