Capacidad de carga turística en la zona de uso público de la isla San Gregorio perteneciente al archipiélago de Jambelí

Abstract

In recent years, San Gregorio Island has become a potential and representative tourist attraction of the province of El Oro. The incredible beachfront that it has in addition to promoting the destination has generated an increase in the interest of people to visit it and carry out sun and beach activities. This massive influx of tourists can bring collapse and the generation of impacts, if it does not have the tools that allow proper management and planning of the place. The present investigation was structured under the combination of qualitative-quantitative methods, which will know the reality of the object of study through bibliographic sources, along with the numerical calculation on the phenomenon studied, in addition to being of a bibliographic, field and descriptive type. The main objective was to determine the tourist load capacity in the area of public use of the Island in order to propose alternatives that allow the sustainable management of the area; under the methodology proposed by Cifuentes, which mentions the calculation of three levels of load capacity (physical, real and effective. The results obtained for the first level were 3,493 users day considering the entire available area, however, subject to correction factors such as precipitation, erodability and solar brightness, the real capacity was 1,173 tourists day, finally, considering the handling that the beach has the average low to 624 users day. Reason why it is necessary to implement strategies to promote sustainable tourism.