%0 Artículo (Article) %A Burgos Doria, Rosalía %I Universidad Santo Tomás, Bogotá-Colombia %D 2016 %G Español (Spanish) %T Community tourism as local development initiative. Case Ciudad Bolívar and Usme Bogotá rural area %X This literature review article aims to identify studies that have been done on the development of community tourism in some countries of Latin America and determine what has been the contribution to improving the quality of life of the communities that have been advanced; this in order to build a framework based on the draft of the ongoing investigation GIRSA assigned to interagency group whose purpose is to promote community tourism as an engine of development for the consolidation of the tourist destinations in the towns of Ciudad Bolivar Usme (rural area) in Bogota . In this sense, the consulted references are to research and developed projects in rural contexts, public organizations, private sector and academia, including from the period from 2006 to 2015 in some Latin American countries