Propuesta de un índice para medir la sostenibilidad ambiental en destinos turísticos ubicados en países en vías de desarrollo

  1. ORCCOSUPA RIVERA, JAVIER
Supervised by:
  1. Armando González-Cabán Director

Defence university: Universidad Internacional de Andalucía

Fecha de defensa: 20 January 2014

Committee:
  1. Miguel Ángel Herrera Machuca Chair
  2. Francisco Javier García Delgado Secretary
  3. Domingo Molina Terrén Committee member
  4. Francisco Borja Barrera Committee member
  5. Francisco Rodríguez Silva Committee member

Type: Thesis

Teseo: 372621 DIALNET lock_openRepositorio de la UNIA editor

Abstract

Abstract This document contains a theoretical analysis of the sustainability of tourism destinations, with emphasis on developing countries with tourism potential. The goal, based on this analysis, is to design, build and validate an instrument to measure the level of sustainability of tourism destinations (ISDT in Spanish). To achieve this goal I selected nine independent variables grouped into three components: environmental pollution in the destination, the pressure on infrastructure capacity and congestion, and social and cultural change of the host community. The methodology was applied in three ISDT destinations in the Sacred Valley of the Incas in Cusco (Pisac, Ollantaytambo and Chinchero) resulting in an ISDT mean value for the three destinations of 0.650, 0.671 and 0.690, respectively. Measured on a scale from zero to one, where zero corresponds to a low ISDT (unsustainable tourist destinations) and one corresponds to a high ISDT (sustainable tourism destinations).