Modelo de gestión para el aprovechamiento turístico de los páramos del Ecuador, como herramienta de manejo sostenible para ecosistemas frágiles

Abstract

Abstract:The moorland ecosystem in Ecuador is affected and presents 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 proposed management model for the tourism development of Ecuador's moorlands is proposed, through the generation of a strategic base as a result of the application of the logical framework matrix agreed upon with non-governmental organizations involved in the conservation and management of this type of ecosystem. Three basic components were established that defined the strategic planning: (1) the strategic model of instruments and means of tourism control for visitor management; (2) the monitoring and evaluation of environmental impacts; and (3) the ecological and environmental restoration processes for the affected moorland ecosystems. The conceptual bases that characterize fragile ecosystems determine that the structuring of this tourism management model can 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.