Sustainable tourism through the World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF) in the agro-ecological farm Gabeno, municipality of Tenjo

Authors

  • Jeffer Chaparro Mendivelso
  • Charlotte Dreger
  • José Alejandro Ospina Niño

Keywords:

Finca Gabeno, sustainable tourism, WWOOF, agroecology, Tenjo, Colombia

Abstract

The Gabeno farm, located in the municipality of Tenjo, in the Department of Cundinamarca and only an hour from Bogota, Colombia, is a farm dedicated to organic cultivation of vegetables, production of milk, eggs and derivatives craft. Receives visitors, mostly foreigners, throughout the year thanks to its vocation as agro-ecological farm and its membership of the World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF), an international network of organic farms developed on the Internet that allows volunteers around the world receive room and board in exchange for work on them. The purpose of this research was to demonstrate the importance of the phenomenon of WWOOF, a global trend in the development of this particular farm as dynamic sustainability and identify it as an alternative for sustainable tourism with strong links to cyberspace

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Vol. 20 (2016)

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