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Ecuador : Fostering Environmentally Sustainable Tourism and Small Business Innovation and Growth in the Galapagos

dc.contributor.author Valdivieso, Jose
dc.contributor.author Toth, Bob
dc.contributor.author Hanna, James
dc.contributor.author Quintero, Juan
dc.date.accessioned 2012-08-13T11:18:52Z
dc.date.available 2012-08-13T11:18:52Z
dc.date.issued 2003-06
dc.description.abstract Well-managed tourism can be an important contributor to sustainable development, providing incentives to protect the environment and maintain biodiversity, while fostering small business development. A recently completed subcomponent of Ecuador's International Trade and Integration Project, supported by a Bank Loan, demonstrates this win-win situation. This note analyzes tourism, in particular the pressures it creates on the environment in the Galapagos islands, given its stance as the fourth largest industry in Ecuador. Voluntary environmental quality standards certification for tour vessels were addressed by specialists, who developed a strategy, focused on the tourists, and the 60 currently active tour boats. Standards were established to minimize environmental impacts by applying conservation practices to boats, and requiring sensitizing clients to the need for environmental behavior. To this end, stakeholders, including government agencies, conservationists, and local communities participated in developing the "SmartVoyager" standards, a development effort beyond conservation. The International Galapagos Tour Operators Association, made significant inputs to the standards, and pledged to support the certification program. This outreach effort enabled the small boat operators to learn what the standards required; how to comply with the requirements; and, most importantly, why the requirements were included in the standards. After this training and motivation, a number of boat operators began to implement practices specified in the standards. Some lessons address the need to bring small businesses into this initiative early on, to gain strong acceptance and support; that beneficiaries share in the costs, including tourists, tour operators, and the national park; and, that the seemingly commercially advantageous certification, should allow enterprises to become self-supporting once its benefits are demonstrated. en
dc.identifier http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/06/2641157/ecuador-fostering-environmentally-sustainable-tourism-small-business-innovation-growth-galapagos
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10382
dc.language English
dc.publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries en breve; No. 26
dc.rights CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder World Bank
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subject ECOTOURISM
dc.subject BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION
dc.subject ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
dc.subject ENVIRONMENTAL TRAINING & MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS
dc.subject ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS
dc.subject CERTIFICATION
dc.subject BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
dc.subject PROJECT COMPONENTS DESIGN
dc.subject STAKEHOLDER PARTICIPATION
dc.subject COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
dc.subject ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE
dc.subject NATIONAL PARKS
dc.subject ABATEMENT
dc.subject AIR
dc.subject BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION
dc.subject CERTIFICATION
dc.subject CFCS
dc.subject CONSERVATION
dc.subject CONSERVATION OF NATURAL
dc.subject CONSERVATION PROGRAMS
dc.subject CUSTOMS
dc.subject ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject ECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subject EMPLOYMENT
dc.subject ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES
dc.subject FAMILIES
dc.subject FISHING
dc.subject HABITAT DESTRUCTION
dc.subject INNOVATION
dc.subject INTERNAL AUDITS
dc.subject INTERNATIONAL TOURISM
dc.subject LEARNING
dc.subject LEGISLATION
dc.subject LOCAL CULTURES
dc.subject NATIONAL PARK
dc.subject NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS
dc.subject PARTNERSHIP
dc.subject PASSENGERS
dc.subject PERCEPTION
dc.subject QUALITY OF LIFE
dc.subject QUALITY STANDARDS
dc.subject RAINFOREST ALLIANCE
dc.subject RECYCLING
dc.subject RIGOROUS STANDARDS
dc.subject RURAL COMMUNITIES
dc.subject SAFETY
dc.subject SUSTAINABILITY
dc.subject SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
dc.subject SUSTAINABLE TOURISM PROGRAM
dc.subject TOUR OPERATORS
dc.subject TOURISM ENTERPRISES
dc.subject TOURISM INCOME
dc.subject TOURISM INDUSTRY
dc.subject TOURISM OPERATIONS
dc.subject TOURISM SECTOR
dc.subject TOURIST
dc.subject TOURIST DESTINATION
dc.subject TOURIST OPERATION
dc.subject TOURISTS
dc.subject TRAVEL AGENTS
dc.subject WASTE
dc.subject WASTE MANAGEMENT
dc.subject WORKERS
dc.title Ecuador : Fostering Environmentally Sustainable Tourism and Small Business Innovation and Growth in the Galapagos en
dspace.entity.type Publication
okr.doctype Publications & Research :: Brief
okr.doctype Publications & Research
okr.docurl http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/06/2641157/ecuador-fostering-environmentally-sustainable-tourism-small-business-innovation-growth-galapagos
okr.globalpractice Environment and Natural Resources
okr.globalpractice Health, Nutrition, and Population
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum 000012009_20031103104059
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum 2641157
okr.identifier.report 27111
okr.language.supported en
okr.pdfurl http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2003/11/03/000012009_20031103104059/Rendered/PDF/271110English0En0breve0no10260Tourism.pdf en
okr.region.administrative Latin America & Caribbean
okr.region.country Ecuador
okr.theme Small and medium enterprise support
okr.theme Other environment and natural resources management
okr.theme Biodiversity
okr.topic Health Monitoring and Evaluation
okr.topic Environment :: Tourism and Ecotourism
okr.topic Environmental Economics and Policies
okr.topic Health Economics and Finance
okr.topic Cultural Heritage and Preservation
okr.topic Health, Nutrition and Population
okr.unit Environment (LCSEN)
okr.volume 1 of 1
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