Touristic Sustainability in Rural and Natural Spaces

Abstract

This article aims to give the reader an overview of the development of nature tourism and its importance for the sustainability of rural and natural areas involving special protection. Once you have seen the end of mass tourism, tourism demand is much more heterogeneous and attends a difference of purposes for which such demand is diversified, representing a particularly important tourism and leisure activities that take place now in natural areas, thus giving rise to different types of leisure and tourism, such as Rural tourism, Ecotourism, Agrotourism, Nature and Adventures tourism, Sports tourism in natural areas, etc. What is important for the sustainability of these areas, that are subject to this type of tourism is getting some positive impacts maintaining sustainability and combating the negative impact, that such activities may have on certain protected areas or special conservation. From this point of view, we believe it is important to develop responsible tourism and committed to environmental conservation and for that the local population must be trained in order to achieve development of the territory without the activities that are the fruit of these typologies tourism and leisure pose a danger. Also, the tourist population must be more aware about what constitutes such practices of leisure and tourism for conservation of the environment and, at the same time, the development of the most depressed areas.

Tourist Clusters in a Developing Country in South America: The Case of Manabì Province, Ecuador

“…In his study to determine the interest that a tourist can have in visiting a certain cultural destination, [23] discovered four different groups of tourists: Accidental cultural, cultural, partially cultural, and very interested in culture. The Worldwatch Institute, meanwhile, has categorized visitors attracted to the nature of the destination based on eight groups: Adventure tourism, ecotourism, geotourism, massive tourism, nature-based tourism, pro-poor tourism, responsible tourism, and sustainable tourism [24].…”