Identificación de servicios turísticos y análisis de las preferencias de turistas para impulsar el ecoturismo en el entorno del Parque Nacional Montaña de Celaque, Honduras
Honduras aims to promote tourism towards protected and wild areas, in order to contribute to the development of marginal rural areas, justify the existence and revenue of the protected areas, and complement incomes obtained through other productive activities. The Montaña de Celaque National Park (PNMC), is considered one of the most attractive parks in the country, due to its capacity as a water source, ecological features, biodiversity and for being the highest mountain in the country. The development as protected area could imply use competition between the objectives of conservation, biodiversity, water use, ecouturism income and productive activities. The purpose of the present study is to contribute to the development of Ecotourism in three communities surrounding the PNMC. Considering, the SOWT (Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, Threats) analysis application, potential and actual tourism product and services were identified, the attributes and levels were identified from the strengths and opportunities for the application of the choice experiments (CE). These attributes were tour guide, food, information, lodging, transport, craftsmanship, and a monetary attribute denominated price. The CE based on a cyclical factorial design of the attributes' levels was used to analyze how a change on the attributes' levels affects the utility of the national and foreign tourists' preferences. The selected preferences where performed through the conditional and multinomial logit, having as result that five of these attributes were highly significant for both tourist populations. Finally, the Marginal Willigness to Pay (MWP) was obtained for these attributes, tour guide was the attribute of most importance for both national tourists and foreign tourists, with a MWP of S2.54 y S7.57, respectively.
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| Format: | biblioteca |
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Turrialba, Costa Rica Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE)
2001
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| Subjects: | ANALISIS ECONOMICO, COMUNIDADES RURALES, HONDURAS, PARQUES NACIONALES, SERVICIOS, TURISMO, ZONAS RURALES, |
| Online Access: | https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/10143 |
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