Reflections on concepts and definitions regarding tourism involving indigenous communities

Tourism has been strongly influenced by the Fordist model of production and consumption, but in the 1980s the Post-Fordism emerged impacting the touristic activity. Emerged the "new tourisms" promoting authentic experiences, including cultural tourism, ethnic tourism, "indigenous tourism" and tourism in indigenous areas. Thus, this research, through literature review, explores the specifics of these typologies and tourist segments that are based in the relationship between tourism and indigenous communities. It has been found that researchers adopt various types of concepts for each type of tourism, showing a differentiation, but at the same time an interrelation between them. To clarify the diferences between concepts, a segmentation is proposed following the characteristics described by the authors. Such division is presented in a visual graph and in textual format. This conceptual discussion is important for the construction of tourism theory and the understanding of its specificities.