Guides and information centers for ecotrackers

Guides and information centers for ecotrackers

BACKGROUND

Ecuador, it is one of the most megadiverse countries in both biodiversity and cultural diversity that brings together many of the characteristics of all Latin American countries due to its tropical, or dry Pacific climate, the Andean cold, and the Amazon rainforest, plus aboriginal cultures. and Spanish culture, but which experiences extinction, climate change, and globalization with the same severity, damages, and benefits as the rest of Latin American countries and accelerated by the dramatic changes created by the internet, the pandemic, and the economic crisis in the region, it is necessary to develop other types of tourism, which not only bring foreign currency, but also help protect its natural wealth, health and cultural riches, since tourists have now been vectors of disease, labor exploitation, and drug consumption or sex, thieves of archeology, animal trafficking or heritage works of art, and damages the inhabitants and countries they visit

Ecuador is the most densely populated country in South America, which means a polluting and destructive urban growth, especially in agricultural areas, with poorly managed solid, liquid, and gaseous waste production, which facilitate the presence of communicable diseases and urban violence that is common. to the entire region.

It has great political instability because it has had 120 leaders and 46 constitutions, with governments that have lasted only hours, which is also common in other Latin American countries.

It is experiencing the expansion of the oil industry of African palm, fishing, shrimp, livestock, bananas, cocoa, flowers, and that cause environmental deterioration, as in Brazil.

It has 30 percent of its territory as protected areas and has places that are world heritage sites such as Quito, Cuenca, Zaruma, or the Galapagos Islands.

At the moment it welcomes a great migration especially from Venezuela, Cuba, and Colombia but with the new agreement of free transit, residence, work that they have signed on August 12, 2021, between Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia, the countries that make up the so-called Cartagena Agreement or Andean Pact.

Ecuador has works and holiday visas with Australia and France that allow Ecuadorians, French, and Australians to live and work for a year in these countries to Ecuadorians, French, and Australians, in the same way, other countries such as Chile, Peru, Colombia have these same rights.,

The pandemic has created a displacement of the population in which there are many deaths, as never in its history, and an economic crisis that forces the population to emigrate within and outside the country, especially to Mexico, the USA, Spain, and Italy.

The economic crisis has multiplied the illegal overexploitation of forests, seas, soils with illegal mining, and human overexploitation with bad wages, or human trafficking and sexual or child slavery.

The revolution of the internet, the cell phone, and the transport that Ecuador has been experiencing since 2000 has reordered work, education, human mobility, and social relations, changing production and productivity.

Tourism has been the industry hardest hit by the pandemic and it is the one that now has the most abandoned infrastructure of goods, services, and jobs, but it generates, after community agricultural production, or transport, more jobs, while agro-industrial production, the fishing industry, livestock. or construction or mining have lower growth in employment, due to the use of machines that reduce the need for labor.

At the same time tourism has become the least polluting industry, and the protector of nature, ancestral cultures, and human health, since their business depends on them, since they are their attractions.

But drug tourism and sex tourism are fundamentally driven by backpackers or millionaire tourists, who did not do smart tourism, to learn, help, or know, but above all to consume, enjoy and have fun, have promoted the production and consumption of drugs and human trafficking, turning Ecuador into a narco-exporting country and an exporter of children and women for sexual exploitation, because generally in a developed country, drug consumption and sexual exploitation or gambling, where it is punished, tourists are spared from the punishment for drugs, gambling and illegal sex in their country, reaching ours where they are transitory, and unknown people who may have health, money, and time to travel.

Tourism in the countries is at the service of local or national governments on duty and investors of large capital, preventing the visitor's right to choose or have information that they consider convenient, to know more about the country, the foundation produces information independent of the interests of the governments of the day or of the convenience of large companies.