TURISMO EN ESPACIOS NATURALES: OPORTUNIDADES EN EL CORREDOR BIOLÓGICO MESOAMERICANO

Abstract

     The Meso-American Biological Corridor is an initiative of the presidents of the Central American States to facilitate the subregional integration by means of strategies based in the singularity and ecological importance of its natural resources. It seeks to implant measures that assure the conservation of these resources in a compatible way with the socio-economic use of their tourist potential. The integrated territory extends for the whole Central American isthmus and it possesses remarkable natural resources of high ecological value and areas of historical-artistic interest with great cultural importance. Their elements, wich are connected in a chain of green links of singular vegetation, constitute havens of certain attractiveness and aptitude for the practice of tourism in the nature. The incorporation of the international circuits of travellers of this project is limited by the precarious ones socio-economic characteristics of its residents and for the weakness of the infrastructures and tourist equipment of most of the countries implied in the project. The idea of the promoters is to create a biological corridor in harmony with their inhabitants, in one of the conservation efforts for the biggest development outlined until the moment. They, with this initiative, participate of the logic of the globalization show.