espanolEl proposito del presente articulo es indagar sobre las caracteristicas de las dinamicas que comienzan a emerger en relacion con el turismo de base rural en los territorios cercanos a Bogota. La metodologia que se utilizo es cualitativa con enfasis en el estudio de las experiencias que se presentan a partir de dos aspectos: analisis de documentos de politica en turismo para estos territorios y de sus planes de desarrollo. De otra parte, se realizaron entrevistas con los responsables de la gestion del turismo de las alcaldias y cuya informacion se examino a traves de fichas que consideraban seis variables como ejes de analisis. La evidencia indica que estas dinamicas surgen desde las comunidades campesinas de manera aislada con la intencion inicial de suplir ingresos, en donde los gobiernos locales intentan integrarlas a traves de variados planes y programas de turismo. EnglishThe purpose of the following article is to invistigate the characteristics of the dynamics which are beginning to emerge in relation to rural -based tourism within the territories close to Bogota. The metholodgy which was used for the investigation was qualitative based with an emphasis on a study of evidence that covers two aspects; the anyalsis of tourism policy documents for these territories and their plans for development. Additionall y, interviews were conducted with those individuals responsbile for the management of tourism within the municipalities. The information obtained was then anyalised through the use of cards that had six variables as axes of anal ysis. The evidence indicated that these dynamics arise from rural communities in isolation with the initial intention of replacing income, where the local governments try to integrate these communities through the means of various tourism plans and programmes.