The Galapagos Islands of Ecuador as a tourist power

Abstract

The objective of this work is to make known that the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador as an international tourism power for the amount of flora and fauna endemic to the sector, therefore it contains a large quantity and quality, for different kinds of tourism such as adventure, nature, sun and beach, scientific, gastronomic, and therefore Galápagos was declared by UNESCO "Natural Heritage of Humanity" in 1978, Galapagos is currently one of the most important mass tourism powers which makes it one of the Ecuador's most important tourist attractions generating 241,800 visitors in 2017 of which 69% are from foreigners (167 thousand tourists), and national tourists only 31% (75 thousand tourists), the distribution has been maintained for the last 3 years, nobody imagined that the Galapagos Islands became one of the most important natural tourism destinations internationally, contributing hundreds of millions of dollars to the economy of the country that would help to exceed the rates. Helping general work either directly or indirectly to the population, but all this is not only a benefit but also very damaging to the sector since mass tourism can bring gravest damage to the endemic flora and fauna that exists in the sector and even to extinction is to say that it disappears completely from the ecosystem, we must also see the damages caused by man, which would be caused by pollution or causing the erosion of the earth.