Abstract

CARRION HIDALGO, Alex Rolando  and  CRUZ PEREZ, Yudemir. Ecotourism at the local level and the use of the vegetation resource. rlde [online]. 2023, n.40, pp.45-77.  Epub Nov 30, 2023. ISSN 2074-4706.  https://doi.org/10.35319/lajed.202340282.

The purpose of the research was to diagnose the management of ecotourism at the local level and the use of the tourist resource vegetation, in Guamote, Ecuador. The work started from the examination of the secondary information available, the empirical approach to the problem (combining survey tools and group work) and the projection of mitigation actions. A low level of conceptualization of ecotourism was obtained among tourists, community members, and tourist agents, and all of them gave importance to the activity, evidencing awareness of the hierarchy of vegetation in the structuring of the ecotourism product. The synthesis of the problem exposed the non-differentiation of the product in the country, whose root cause in the local system was the insufficient use of the vegetation tourist resource; however, in the territory physical, political and market limitations were identified for the solution of the problem, on which mitigation actions were defined.

Keywords : Use; tourist resources; vegetation; ecotourism; local development.

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