Rural Community Tourism for the Area of Influence of the: Serrania Regional Natural Park of Las Quinchas in Otanche, Boyacá, Colombia

EasyChair Preprint 3163

Abstract

After the declaration of the Serranía de las Quinchas Regional Natural Park, there were effects on the community of the area of ​​influence, altering the habitual development of economic activities, causing an increase in poverty, creating new limitations, as well as phenomena of displacement from the areas rural areas towards urban areas, in addition to the development of illegal activities such as extensive deforestation.When determining the lack of economic alternatives with a sustainable approach in the area, an alternative of sustainable economic activity is proposed for the buffer zone of the Natural Park in Otanche, based on the implementation of community rural tourism, with which it is intended minimize negative challenges in both natural ecosystems and the general population since the implementation of cooperative processes. Initially, the environmental, social and economic diagnosis of the area is generated and in the work together with the community the tourist inventory of the region is consolidated, where the main environmental and social criteria capable of consolidating the supply of goods and services are identified of tourist order of the zone, giving rise to the design of the Community Rural Tourism plan, with the consolidation of a tourist map where all the points, routes and activities to develop in the area are located.Finally, the Community Rural Tourism plan was socialized with the community, identifying weaknesses, opportunities, strengths and threats recognized by the community.

Keyphrases: Protected area., cooperativity, environmental heritage, rural tourism, tourist attraction

@booklet{EasyChair:3163,
  author    = {Alejandra Castro Ortegón and Pedro Mauricio Acosta Castellanos and Juan Esteban Quevedo Mora and Karen Barrera Moreno},
  title     = {Rural Community Tourism for the Area of Influence of the: Serrania Regional Natural Park of Las Quinchas in Otanche, Boyacá, Colombia},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 3163},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2020}}