language, cultural capital, and community tourism

[Natalia Bermudez]

Hello All,

I've been working a language documentation project in an indigenous
territory in Central America for about a year. Tourism is a recent but
booming economy in the territory that has influenced the reasons they want
to document traditions. With community leaders (and in house-to-house
visits), I've been brainstorming ways to balance community benefit and
individual family/clan benefit from tourism that comes through the
territory. Examples of effective tourism economy models from other "native"
populations would help. Does anyone know of useful scholarly work or have
first-hand experience, for example, in distributing income through native
community museums or standardizing cultural capital? We will much
appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks,
Natalia