Glamping como prototipo para el desarrollo del ecoturismo: Estudio de caso en Agua de Dios Cundinamarca

Abstract

In the recent decades, the Province of Alto Magdalena has become a big territory of tourism development, for this reason it'll be possible to clinch different groups of hotel companies, which have been building big hotels, condominiums and vacation centers, bringing together a large number of travelers, who seek a close experience with nature, to be able to rest from the stress, of the current COVID-19 pandemic and the pollution generated by the big cities. These hotel companies have forsaken environmental care and biosafety protocols, which must be applied to these buildings, representing a large ecological footprint, inducing the environmental deterioration of this territory. On the other hand, these companies have focused on lock down the traveler in a certain space, increasing the risks of contagion, and also using biosecurity protocols with low efficiency standards. Therefore, it was necessary to analytically saw hotel techniques around the world, such as glamping, which born in Africa, where the word glamor and the word camping unify, to generate a new tourism concept, where the main attention is doing camping (at outdoors) without forgetting the enjoy of comfort and luxury that provide the experience of glamping, and in this way generate a harmonic connection between glamor and nature, protecting and preserving the consolidated environment. For this reason, the innovative alternative of glamping was taking for develop tourism in the territory. Since the activities take place at outdoor spaces and nature environments, reducing the potential risks at health for their users. To make it possible, the municipality of Agua de Dios at the Cundinamarca's Department have a territory that hasn't been affected by the hotel industry.