Gestión del turismo en Áreas Naturales Protegidas

• Autor: Romo Román, Pablo César
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2019
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: PUCP-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.pucp.edu.pe:20.500.14657/168702
• Enlace del recurso: https://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/168702
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Turismo sostenible; áreas naturales protegidas; Gestión de áreas protegidas; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.02.04

Tourism in Natural Protected Areas (ANP) has increased in recent years and the trend is that it continues to do so. This has been beneficial, mainly economic and social, but at the same time, a worldwide concern has arisen from the environmental consequences that development can produce in these natural spaces. Currently, there are protected natural areas that receive a number of visitors unthinkable in the past, and seasonally resemble mass tourism destinations, which previously only arise in beaches and cities, as is the case of the model of tourist development of the city of Cancun. In Peru, there is also tourism in ANP that comes to generate the benefits mentioned previously, and despite this, there is a large investment gap to achieve proper management of them. This need for investment translates into a diversity of limitations that negatively influence the management of this spaces and therefore the sustainability and long-term permanence of tourism activity. It is so, from a good management in the conservation of the ANP that includes a good tourist management, these spaces have the potential to ensure in perpetuity the realization of tourist activities that generate benefits for entrepreneurs, local community and also opportunities for recreation of tourists and local community. In this sense, various actions are required to improve tourism management of these sites, from the increase in the budget of the entity responsible for its administration, as well as a prioritization of the entity in charge of tourism policy at the national level.This article will address the relevance of protected natural spaces in the tourism sector, as well as the challenges for the sustainability of the activity and those spaces. Consequently, it will address some international cases and the reality of the issue at the national level; to finally provide the conclusions of the analysis and the proposals to improve public policy.