Nature tourism in the post-pandemic: case Santo Domingo de los Colorados, Ecuador

Abstract

The activities were seriously affected after the COVID-19 pandemic, desolation, the smell of death, despair, hopelessness, closure of roads and airports, etc., were indicators of change and adaption for humanity; a new tourist profile is emerging, who wants products to share with his family, destinations and outdoor products; service providers must generate strategies that make their reservation systems more flexible.Three sites with natural benefits that respond to the tourism market are identified in Santo Domingo, it is intended through its objectives: to identify natural, sustainable and conservation spaces, based on their tourist potential, to determine a biodiversity registry for the identification of species of flora and fauna, propose that companies in the tourist sector develop products with a focus on nature tourism and its various alternatives;  non-experimental approach research, transactional design, using record sheets of biodiversity in flora and fauna; For the diagnosis of natural spaces, a FODA analysis was carred out. The “Padre Julio Marrero” Botanical Garden is suitable for nature, educational and scientific tourism, native vegetation and flora, in fauna the Aves and Insecta class. The “Bomboli” hill is suitable for recreational tourism, the Aracea class predominates in flora, the Ave class predominates in flora, the Ave class in fauna. The “Kasama Park” is suitable for educational, scientific and ecoturism, its flora predominance is the Aracea class Stereaceae and in fauna the class Ave and insect.