Tourism in mangrove ecosystems: a tourism potential as a development alternative in the Nuevo Porvenir Enclosure

Abstract

Ecuador has 161,835 hectares of mangroves, of which 72,523 are protected areas and 68,000 remain in some means of conservation. For years ecosystems have been subject to negative effects such as indiscriminate logging, tree deforestation, aquaculture, climate change, loss of biodiversity, disappearance of many species, impoverishment of communities, among others, are factors that are causing its deterioration and disappearance. Ecotourism promotes investment, tourism demand will generate dynamism in the economy, social restructuring of local communities through the implementation and development of projects that help to conserve ecosystems and the services they offer, to create jobs without leave aside the incorporation of experiences and advice from other countries, which with the help of national and private companies will allow offering tourism products consistent with the current reality of environmental preservation and conservation, which will allow Ecuador to be known to its people, their culture, their land.

This was a descriptive field investigation, the interview was used as a tool to obtain answers about the study objective, resulting in that in the Nuevo Porvenir Enclosure of the Naranjal Canton, ecotourism is presented as an alternative in the ecosystem of the mangroves that will contribute to the conservation of the same, with possible undertakings and visible results allowing the union of tourism with nature, but above all to reduce poverty and preserve natural resources.