In 2005 we defined the basic criteria a fair tourism community-based organisation must respect in order to enter the Tusoco Network.

Organisation:
The communities participate directly in the tourism activity, they agree to provide services and to reach self-management. The activity planning and decision taking are collective and the economic incomes are self-managed by the community-based organisation.  

Environment:  
Community-based tourism must generate a local empowerment of the natural heritage which strengthens the communities with practices of development and preservation of the natural resources. For us the landscape is not   just a tourists’ attraction, but it entails responsibility on the use of biodiversity.

Economics:
The community-based organisation self-manages its economic resources with transparency and distributes the profit democratically. The tourism organisation buys and promotes the local products and services, thus seeking the food sovereignty. Tourism should generate clear benefits for the community as a follow-up to its main productive activity, the agriculture.

Society:
Community tourism should provide opportunity for the development of new individuals and collective capabilities in indigenous and peasant communities. On the other hand, it strengthens the social and productive local fabric, with generation of rural employment, leadership with environmental and social criteria. It also encourages intercultural and educational events that promote local human development and thus development of the community as a whole.

Quality:
For us community-based fair tourism means good quality, because the tourist is offered appropriate information, hospitality and safety, and hygiene in providing services.