Environmental education and sustainable tourism: contributions to the city of manta ecuador

Abstract

This article, is part of the trial modality, which aims to make a critical and reflective contribution around environmental education as a strategic tool to promote sustainable tourism in the city of Manta Ecuador, this discursive journey begins with a look at the contributions and precepts that international bodies have made around the subject , hence it is appreciated that sustainable tourism is crucial for development, not only because it holds the potential to contribute to economic growth, but can also have a positive influence on local communities; preserve heritage, biodiversity and natural resources. In this sense it is assumed that environmental education is a tool to improve human relations with their environment and should therefore influence the prevention and resolution of environmental problems. As a reflection, it is imperative that a contextualized educational curriculum be assumed, including environmental education as the tool to promote sustainable tourism, where teachers develop strategies with higher levels of concreteness and with a more consosient socio-critical stance with the social and environmental demands of the locality.