El turismo comunitario urbano como forma de re-existencia cultural y laboral. El modelo de Barrio Egipto (Bogotá) = Community Based Tourism in Slum as a form of cultural and labor re-existence : The Barrio Egipto model (Bogotá)

The expansion of metropolises in Latin America has been carried out through sociocultural exclusion of informal urban localities, or "Geographies of Violence" (Jaramillo Marín, Parrado Pardo y Louidor, 2019), characterized by conditions of institutional abandonment, social disarticulation and normalization of violence. In the face of these processes of marginalization, autonomous and community structures may emerge, aimed at constituting alternative employment opportunities. This is the case of the Breaking Borders community tourism initiative in the Egipto Alto district in Bogotá. e present essay points to approach an analysis of the project starting from notion of "re-existence" (Gonçalves de Lima, 2005), applied to the cultural and labor fields, to deepen the patterns that characterize the community and autonomous construction of the experience of tourism: visual art and oral memory. The methodological setting of the research has incorporated field work, with observation of various tours and interviews with project organizing members and inhabitants of the neighborhood carried out between 2018 and 2020, and a bibliographic study of the notion of community based tourism, within the framework of a comparative study in a continental perspective.