La educación ambiental como estrategia para el turismo sostenible Environmental education as a strategy for sustainable tourism

Abstract

The importance of preserving the environment within the tourism field is an area that has been investigated with interest, as a result of which there is information that helps to understand that tourism is an activity that demands the use of natural resources, so they must be properly managed to minimize environmental degradation and hindering sustainability. That is why, this work aimed to highlight the importance of incorporating environmental education as a strategy for sustainable tourism. In this sense, a qualitative, non-experimental methodology was applied, based on a documentary review, whose advisory information was extracted through databases such as: Redalyc, Scielo, Dialnet and Google Scholar, with special attention to recent studies. In the same way, government sources and environmental legislation were incorporated that contributed the legal aspect to the investigation. As a result of the review, it was obtained that environmental education promotes a new relationship of humanity with its environment, especially because it sensitizes and empowers human beings by changing their behavior and generating a sense of belonging to the environment. From this, it is concluded that it is of utmost importance that environmental education is incorporated as a strategy within the tourist-educational context to guarantee sustainable tourism in those spaces that offer natural diversity, from the development of values, attitudes and skills that lead the human being to assume responsibility with the environment