There has been much talk recently about new trends in tourism. The latest hype is about tourism that immerses you in the nature and culture of local communities. Two types of tourism of this class are termed "rural tourism" and "responsible tourism."

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For many reasons, Ecuador is referred to allegorically as a Banana Republic. The truth remains that Ecuador is the number one exporter of bananas worldwide and is said to produce some of the best tasting bananas.

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Casa de Eliza is a cozy, budget traveler's guest house founded in Quito in 1989 by Maria Eliza Manteca, an Afro-American nurse from Ecuador's Imbabura province (Northern Andes).

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In Quito, more than ever before, the global justice movement in the North has converged with what is perhaps the original "antiglobalization" movement--the massive and growing Latin American resistance to neoliberalism.

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