Communitarian Tours

Martsam Travel accordance with its economic social and environmental policies has developed tours and circuits for groups and independent travelers which generate opportunities to involve tourists and local communities in an immersion inside local customs and its fascinating world.

What is Communitarian Tourism? Communitarian tourism is tourist activity administered and managed by rural organized groups.

Through tourism they and the communities manage their cultural and natural patrimony adequately, and generate an alternative income for their families' development and for a better care of resources. (Concept created by the Guatemalan organizations partners and cooperating institutions)

Communitarian Tourism offers visitors:

• Authentic experiences and an interchange with the communities and their living culture
• Direct contact with nature
• Excellent quality of adventure activities
• Opportunity to contribute to local development.

Thanks to Communitarian Tourism the communities:

• Preserve and value their cultural and natural heritage.
• Have new options for local development with social equity, and generated employments and income.
• Reinforce their local empowerment.
• Strengthen the active participation of the community.
• Suffer less the effects of job related migration, and avoid the family's disintegration.
• Communitarian tourism is an alternative way for the community to generate income and cover part of its needs.