Elaboración de un manual de buenas prácticas ambientales para el desarrollo turístico del centro Makita Kuy Wildlife Reserve.

Abstract

This research was carried out with the purpose of proposing a Manual of good environmental practices at Makita Kuy Wildlife Reserve tourist center. For this purpose, an on-site visit was made in which all the site's facilities were visited, directly verifying the current condition of place and strategies for good environmental practices. The main objective was to prepare a Manual of good environmental practices for sustainable tourism development from tourist center where it was applied. The theoretical development was based on a literature and documentary review together with information gathered from the field exploration, and results of surveys applied. For this purpose, current condition of the site was analyzed through a SWOT matrix (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats, and Opportunities), which showed that the strengths and opportunities tend to do a very good job of management, aiming to improve more and more by relying on the strengths and correcting weaknesses; It was identified that tourist center has several services such as natural attractions through an ecological trail, restaurant, bar, kayak, which allows tourists to connect with nature because it is bordering Payamino river; The strategies were established through a literary analysis and a Manual of good environmental practices, which is expected to be applied at the site to contribute fully to the environment in order to preserve and conserve natural resources available at the site. It was concluded that, tourist center has good environmental strategies; however, it is necessary to implement improvements to apply sustainable tourism, it is recommended that good environmental practices necessity in this research has to be implemented.