<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The article explores the natural context and the geographical conditions for developing tourism and for designing sectorial plans. The objective is to offer basic visual rendering as a resource for appreciating the natural environs in which the tourist activity evolves and use such resource as useful input during the planning and designing exercises. The methodology relies on the application of cartographic and spatial tools as instruments for recognising the territory and the natural landscape. The results render the current condition of natural resources and the territorial reality, as a general frame for proposing sustainable strategies of tourism planning. The contribution of the analysis can be appreciated amid the scarcity of local and specific cartographic analysis, and the precarious stock of inputs that could guide the tourism and the territorial planning in lagged territories. An overwhelming conclusion of our exercise is that the awarness and valuations of natural endowments are key elements for preserving the environment and for applying an adequate planning strategy in order to reconcile the economic necessities and the preservation of natural environment.</p></abstract>

The article explores the natural context and the geographical conditions for developing tourism and for designing sectorial plans. The objective is to offer basic visual rendering as a resource for appreciating the natural environs in which the tourist activity evolves and use such resource as useful input during the planning and designing exercises. The methodology relies on the application of cartographic and spatial tools as instruments for recognising the territory and the natural landscape. The results render the current condition of natural resources and the territorial reality, as a general frame for proposing sustainable strategies of tourism planning. The contribution of the analysis can be appreciated amid the scarcity of local and specific cartographic analysis, and the precarious stock of inputs that could guide the tourism and the territorial planning in lagged territories. An overwhelming conclusion of our exercise is that the awarness and valuations of natural endowments are key elements for preserving the environment and for applying an adequate planning strategy in order to reconcile the economic necessities and the preservation of natural environment.

A Spatial Approach for Framing the Development of Tourism: Bahía Solano – Colombia

The University College of Business in Prague

European Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Recreation

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The article explores the natural context and the geographical conditions for developing tourism and for designing sectorial plans. The objective is to offer...

A Spatial Approach for Framing the Development of Tourism: Bahía Solano – Colombia

Publicado en línea: 04 may 2020

Páginas: 26 - 39

Recibido: 06 jun 2019

Aceptado: 08 oct 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ejthr-2019-0011

Palabras clave
Economic geography, Spatial planning, Bahía Solano, Pacific Ocean sustainability

© 2019 Helmuth Yesid Arias Gómez et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

A Spatial Approach for Framing the Development of Tourism: Bahía Solano – Colombia

Publicado en línea: 04 may 2020

Páginas: 26 - 39

Recibido: 06 jun 2019

Aceptado: 08 oct 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ejthr-2019-0011

Palabras claveEconomic geography, Spatial planning, Bahía Solano, Pacific Ocean sustainability

© 2019 Helmuth Yesid Arias Gómez et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Palabras clave
Economic geography, Spatial planning, Bahía Solano, Pacific Ocean sustainability