III. IMPACTO AMBIENTAL EN LA CIÉNAGA DE MALLORQUIN Y SU INCIDENCIA EN EL TURISMO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DEL ATLÁNTICO

Abstract

The environmental impacts in coastal areas have been increasing due to the poor management
that is being given to these ecosystems, calling into question the actions of human beings.
Starting from the research assumption that maintains that culture directly affects the
management that coastal communities provide to the services provided by the ecosystems of
the environment where they are located, the following research addresses the exercise of
building the bases of conceptual and regulatory support that allows the adequate
management, from a tourism approach, of the territory of the Ciénaga de Mallorquín in the
northern area of the department of Atlántico on the Colombian Caribbean coast, with the
objective of carrying out an analysis of the environmental impacts associated with the
activities carried out in the coastal area. Using first-hand information resulting from the
development of the Research Project “Analysis and Evaluation of the Tourism Industry of
the Department of Atlántico” that was obtained from research carried out by a group of
researchers from the Industrial Engineering program of the Universidad del Atlántico.
With the above, it is expected to strengthen the structure of the Tourism industry for the
economic reactivation of the Department of Atlántico; improving the ecological, urban and
tourist conditions required by the sustainable use of its natural resources.