PERÚ, Promoting the rural communitarian tourism

MODEL OF

SUSTAINABLE ECOTOURISM IN THE HISTORIC SANCTUARY

OF THE PÓMAC FOREST

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Centro ECO is an organization, committed to environmental, economical and social issues, that promotes rural sustainable development in Peru.

Our mission is to identify, elaborate, implement, execute, provide technical assistance, monitor and evaluate sustainable business projects and initiatives with a social inclusion, by the means of participative methodology for the rural development.

We have been working for more than 15 years on issues such as environmental protection, conservation and preservation of the dry forests, agro ecology, rural technologies, social responsibility, business networks, rural communitarian tourism, etc.

In this way we are committed to the sustainable rural development, with welfare, equity and in harmony with the environment.

Av. Unión # 122 Urb. Santa Elena - Chiclayowww.centroeco-peru.orgcentro_eco@hotmail.com

Telf: 074-203922

The problematic arises from an inadequate tourism service that, if functioning, would develop the residents of the SHBP buffer zone. Meanwhile they are still obtaining very low income, from a business point of view.

On the other hand is has been proven effective working with participatory methodology and adequate intervention techniques such as: the recovery of forest coverage of the SHBP, the construction of the touristic ecolodge preserving the SICAN guidelines, by highlighting their infrastructure in the tourist center and finally, to achieve a model of ecotourism.

Thus the project integrates the ecotourism as an activity, potentially income generating, where the rural families are the main providers of quality tourism services, preserving the Historic Sanctuary of the Pómac Forest.

01. Ecological, cultural, economical and touristic acknowledgement of the SHBP buffer zone.

Improving quality of life and income of the farmhouse families located in the buffer zone of the Historic Sanctuary of the Pómac Forest, by the means of offering sustainable eco tourism service.

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The villagers of the Historic Sanctuary of the Pómac Forest buffer zone will improve the quality of their tourism services, boosting a business model of competitive eco tourism through the implementation of the eco tourist lodge that will leverage local recourses rationally.

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04. Degraded areas, recovered and reforested with maintenance and surveillance by the local population, included in the Bosque de Pómac ecotourism circuit.

03. Human resources are needed in the development and management of the SHBP ecotourism organized in an association for business management

02. The designed Eco tourism product and construction of the ecolodge, certified and equipped for the eco tourism development in the SHBP.

?Elaborating a diagnostical approach in order to consolidate the ecotourism?Elaboration of a market research to complement the demand of the product eco tourism

?20 guides trained in ecotourism and translation (20 workshops)?20 families trained in tourist service, gastronomy, first aid and environmental management (15 workshops)?Management association of the SHBP ecotourism business

?Integration of the reforested areas within the tourism circuit?Maintenance of the 300 hectares that have been degraded, recovered and reforested

?Design of the eco tourism activities?Construction and equipping of the ecolodge run by the Management Association of the SHBP ecotourism business?Promotion and diffusion of the SHBP eco tourism circuit. Promotion of the ecolodge and eco tourist center?Management of the eco tourist lodge?· Construction supervision by FONDAM