Perspective décoloniale pour penser le tourisme à Abya Yala (Amérique): une approche de la notion bribri de « buen vivir

The decolonisation and decolonial perspectives are now strongly embedded in the academic debate, in particular the fundamental contribution of Aníbal Quijano on the coloniality of power and race as constitutive elements of the global capitalist power model. In this article, the study starts from a broad bibliographical review of decolonial perspective, its main characteristics, its theoretical bases and its differences with postcolonial postures. We examine in depth the academic production (Spanish, French and English speaking) on tourism and the links with the decolonial perspective. We also propose some elements of reflection on the tourism coloniality and “buen vivir” from a decolonial turn to reflect on tourism in the indigenous communities context, based on our experience of working with indigenous communities in Latin America. As a main conclusion, the decolonial perspective can be a very useful framework of ideas, theories, and concepts in times of crisis, to generate critical thinking around indigenous tourism.