Fourth International Conference on Tourism and Leisure Studies

Abstract

This is an international collaborative project that we have developed in the Colombian Caribbean - in San Andrés archipelago, Providencia and Santa Catalina - around the rampant and devastating Tourism that plagues the Island. It is a project that we do in collaboration between Colombia and the United States where we approach the design, heritage and ecological issues of the region.The struggle against the environmental and social crisis caused by global climate change and dependence on neoliberal solutions, such as free trade policies and tourism development, are fought in the most remote corners of the planet (Serenari, et al, 2016 ). There is no doubt that tourism today represents one of the greatest global economic, cultural and environmental challenges facing countries, as their results are often the deterioration of the physical and social environment, as well as great disparities in the distribution of wealth . The losses of ecological and economic sustainability are typical problems of places where tourism overflows its capacities. This reality is obviously problematic for many tropical communities of islands and coasts whose main source of economic sustenance are the profits of the internationally controlled local tourism industry. A particularly vulnerable place for the purposes of tourism development policies is the Caribbean archipelago known as the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve.

Presenters

Diana Zoraida Castelblanco Caicedo
Investigación desde 2016: Diseño Territorial y estéticas sociales , FACULTAD DE ARTES Y DISEÑO, UNIVERSIDAD JORGE TADEO LOZANO, Colombia

Edgar Patiño Barreto