Tourism management of Ecuador's moorland: an opportunity for the sustainable management of fragile ecosystems: Gestión turística de los páramos del Ecuador: una oportunidad para el manejo sostenible de los ecosistemas frágiles

The moorland ecosystem in Ecuador is affected and shows a continuous and uncontrollable degradation process, estimating that more than three quarters of the entire area originally occupied is modified or has been transformed by human activities, among them, tourism developed in these areas. Under this premise, the structure of a proposal for a management model for the use of Ecuador's moorlands for tourism was proposed, through the generation of a strategic base and the review of management processes of non-governmental organizations involved in the conservation and management of this type of ecosystem. Three basic components were established to define strategic planning: (1) the strategic model of instruments and means of tourism control for visitor management; (2) monitoring and evaluation of environmental impacts; and (3) ecological-environmental restoration processes for affected moorland ecosystems. The conceptual bases that characterize fragile ecosystems determined that the structuring of this tourism management model could be replicated and homologated to the tourism management of fragile ecosystems in general, sharing the objective of guaranteeing conservation and natural ecological-environmental restoration processes.

• मुख्य लेखक: Almeida Peñaherrera, Jefferson Damián (author)
• स्वरूप: article
• भाषा: spa
• प्रकाशित: 2023
• विषय: tourism management model; sustainable management of moorlands; fragile ecosystems; modelo de gestión turística; manejo sostenible de páramos; ecosistemas frágiles
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: https://publicaciones.udet.edu.ec/index.php/ricit/article/view/187