Indigenous tourism to the interior of Suriname started about 15 years ago
and the sector is still growing. As an emergent tourism destination, the country is
facing some complexities. The isolation that has protected Suriname‟s ecosystem,
natural resources and indigenous cultures may come to an end, and actions to
preserve these remarkable resources should soon be done; uncontrolled tourism can
bring damage to both nature and culture. The paper focuses on indigenous themed
tourism and explores the need and the opportunity for developing a destination, such
as Suriname, to elaborate policies and procedures in order to promote sustainable
tourism and to avoid commodification and falsification of indigenous culture, as it
has occurred in some other countries