Planificación, sustentabilidad e impacto de las actividades turísticas recreativas del pasajero de cruceros: estudio de caso Mahahual (Quintana Roo, México)

Identifier:  TDX:2947

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX2947

Authors:  González Vera, Maria Angèlica

Abstract:
Mexico promoted the creation of Mahahual as a tourist destination in the south of the state of Quintana Roo. Cruise tourism has evolved particularly in Quintana Roo. The case study was addressed with the Socioecological Systems paradigm, analyzing the environmental impact of recreational tourist activities carried out by cruise passengers, 385 surveys were carried out, the cruise passenger profile was determined, type of recreational tourist activities carried out and land or marine environment. For the environmental perception of the place where they carried out recreational tourism activities, the whole of the sample mentioned the category Excellent and Very Good. In Urban-Environmental Perception, the category with the highest percentage for the sample is Very Good and Good. In both perceptions, the differences between passengers from Canada and the USA were statistically significant (p <0.001). The opinion of the community, the providers of services and the public sector was obtained through interviews, they mention the environmental and economic reality that surrounds them, they present responses to environmental, social and economic problems. The environmental impact of recreational tourist activities was qualified using a traffic light. He pointed out that the high impacts are greater in the terrestrial sphere than in the marine one, the moderates are greater in the marine than in the terrestrial one. Intervention in the management of cruise passengers is recommended in order to preserve the sustainability of the destination or improve it. Sustainable development was evaluated using environmental indicators, the results show that it is time to take action. There is a network of agents and power relations in the tourism system, where investors have been empowered by the activity of cruise tourism. There is no sustainable cruise tourism based on the sustainable tourism model observed in the development planning instruments, the current environmental and tourist regulations.