Diseño de un modelo de gestión turistica y conservación del parque ecológico Perla del Gobierno Autónomo Descentralizado del cantón Lago Agrio

Abstract

A study was carried out with the purpose to design a tourism management model for the PERLA recreational ecological park of the Decentralized Autonomous Government of Lago Agrio canton through quality self-managed and sustainable activities to attract more local, national and international tourists and boost this attraction efficiently. In the investigation, a non-experimental design was applied to a population of 378 randomly selected people in Lago Agrio. A survey was used as an instrument to assess the views of tourists. The results showed that 65.1% prefer ecological tourism, where the most of them carry out this activity with their relatives, and visit the PERLA park once a month and what they like the most is the flora and fauna. However, tourists consider that better communication should be promoted through social networks and the food service should be improved. Therefore, it is concluded that the tourism management model for the Perla ecological park of the Decentralized Autonomous Government of Lago Agrio, with a scheme of good practices and adequate administrative management, will be able to attract more local, national and international tourists