The commitment to sustainable tourism and the development of indigenous tourism in Chile.

Abstract This chapter offers a critical analysis of tourism development policy in Chile. It specifically analyses the commitment of public policy to sustainability as a pillar of indigenous tourism and highlights the contradictions of tourism development under the country's economic model. It is acknowledged that there are contradictions between promotion of the indigenous world as part of what the country offers in terms of sustainable tourism and the difficulties in the political recognition of its indigenous peoples. The chapter documents that in various parts of the country tourism has developed massively and with little regulation, and that indigenous territories have become natural and cultural attractions with little control over their territories and implementation of their specific rights. It is concluded that it is difficult to put into practice a type of tourism that is governed by the principles of sustainability as well as the recognition of the needs and desires of the indigenous population.