Next working group focused its discussions in two blocks, divided into the discourse on Innovations in Tourism in Protected Natural Areas and Tourism responsible in International Cooperation.
Referring to the Natural Protected Areas, one of the conclusions stated that despite being pioneers in the declaration of natural areas in Europe and worldwide have the highest density of interpretation centers (meaning that interpretation as infrastructure and not as the relationship between human beings and the natural environment should actually represent) is not made effective planning of them, and that planning and its objectives should adapt methodologies and tools used to type the recipient receive in the future, highlighting the relevance here takes the shape of a good guide to connect with the audience and displayed as a true host of the environment presented.
thus raising the high potential of natural areas is useful only if you have the skills to show it, why public funds should act as an outreach tool, not an obstacle between the manager and agents that interact with the environment protected. Equally important is the realization of advertising campaigns capturen la atención del público, así como centrar los esfuerzos sobre aquellos agentes que generan mayor impacto ambiental sobre el espacio protegido ya que, en numerosas ocasiones, las campañas de sensibilización se orientan al público que menor impacto genera (niños, población local ya concienciada...).
Algunas de las medidas que se pueden realizar para conseguir adaptar estos centros de interpretación son: acercar a la población local los objetivos poblacionales, detectar las necesidades existentes tanto en la gestión del parque como en el visitante y la población local, realizar un buen diseño de las instalaciones y facilitar el acceso a ellas, efforts to ensure the smooth running of it, move the graphic displays for personal exhibitions by guides ...
One of the case studies presented was an example of Andalusia and the use of equipment management public in the Community, established as a way forward to building companies based on learning, understanding the benefits to be derived from the conservation of natural areas in a given environment, and transform the self-employment and local development in development initiatives the territory.
The second block on the Responsible Tourism in International Cooperation, began marking the difficulty of access to current information on this subject, both in destination areas as national documentation. Thus, also manifest as difficulty performing a historical analysis in Spain that allow the subsequent design of the criteria for action. The existence of large amount of confusion in the terms used in this field (confuse "solidarity trip" to "responsible tourism", with "ecotourism "...) and using very different terms to describe the same type of activity involving other of the handicaps to the detailed analysis of this situation, although the tourist industry is the most powerful today. In this regard, and given that the greatest benefits derived from a previous tourism project planning and participatory design with the local population, it raised the question of who certifies that, indeed, is implementing a sustainable tourism because such projects are poorly evaluated and, once the assessment, there is no where to see the outcome of such documents.
On the other hand, another of the problems that arise in regard to these activities observed with agents such as developing the project that, in most cases, these agents are very knowledgeable of the resource or target environment, but not for the knowledge and methodologies tourist.
Despite these considerations, we should not be pessimistic about the outlook for sustainable tourism and tourism in natural areas, as many projects get development cross-cutting objectives that provide this particular type of activity of a craft that few large-scale economic activities would be able to get.
Pilar Gómez González
Paloma Delgado Moreno
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