A new tourist modality, the community tourism, has strongly appeared in the countries of the Andean region of Latin America, mainly in Ecuador. The present document identifies and analyzes the aspects that distinguish the community tourism as tourist modality, the model of tourist development in which it is framed and the central elements that should be considered to the design and implementation of a strategy of intervention of the community tourism, so as to contribute to the future construction of a Model of Sustainable Management of the Community Tourism.