Abstract

GIRALDO URIBE, José Jardani; SANCHEZ-MUNOZ, María del Pilar  and  RUIZ-AGUDELO, Héctor Hugo. Environmental indicators for sustainable tourism proposal. Case of the la Tatacoa desert, Huila, Colombia. Semest. Econ. [online]. 2020, vol.23, n.54, pp.239-261.  Epub July 30, 2020. ISSN 0120-6346.  https://doi.org/10.22395/seec.v23n54a12.

By considering the boom in which deserts tourism currently is and its effects, here we present an indicators proposal to know the environmental values of 2019, expressed through an index known as sustainable tourism index (STI) in the Tatacoa desert. The methodology employed consists in selecting a group of indicators that take as a reference the sustainable tourism index of the World Tourism Organization, some of the criteria for selecting indicators and the specific features of the territory. The result is a proposal composed by 28th indicators from which eight were calculated for the construction of the STI, which allows the assessment of the environmental status of the tourist site as good.

JEL CLASSIFICATION: L83, Q51, Q01

CONTENT: Introduction; 1. Sustainable tourism and indicators in desert environments; 2. Methodology; 3. Results; 4. Conclusions; Bibliography.

Keywords : Desert; Desert tourism; sustainable tourism; environmental indicators.

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