We are a Bolivian non-profit association which rallies our indigenous and peasant community-based organisations in order to develop tourism as an alternative to better and diversify our income sources and to heighten the identities of our peoples.
We, members of the Tusoco Network, have different cultural identities and organisation types, but we all want to preserve our natural and cultural heritage. We want to better our living conditions with this new source of employment and income, and leave our children a sustainable activity in the small villages we live in.
The Tusoco Network is the matrix organisation that supports its members by carrying out such activities as: strengthening associated member organisations, training human resources, seeking self-management of the organisations, fundraising, developing our tours, marketing those tours via Tusoco Viajes SRL (Tusoco Travels) and representing our sector to national and international levels.
The Tusoco Network is composed of the organised communities that have been working for years to offer original travels, travels that focus on the reality of human beings and their coexistence with nature.
The Tusoco Network is a self-managed association which is run by our members, the fair tourism community-based organisations. We don’t belong to any political, religious or international cooperation organisation. However we work in coordination with various public institutions and NGOs who share our vision, and we are an active member of the REDTURS, the Latin-Americans Network for Fair Tourism.
All the organisations that form the Tusoco Network share essential values that are inseparable from our vision of alternative tourism in Bolivia: a responsible tourism, that implies an ethic commitment between the traveller and the host; solidarity; transparency in the management of our organisations, the independence of the Tusoco Network and its associated members, equity between gender and generations; a fair distribution of the profits, the protection of environment.
The essential difference between the Network and traditional tourism is that the communities originate and manage the projects themselves with the objective to reach a sustainable development by integrating the tourism activity.
