ORNITHOLOGICAL TOURISM PROGRAM IN THE COLOMBIAN AMAZON BASIN
By: Fuverde Foundation
RESUMEN
The Colombian Amazon Basin has the potential to receive 2 million tourists a year for ecotourism activities, with sustainable development. Biodiversity, indigenous peoples, forests and the great Amazon River, constitute impressive natural tourist centers to create an ecotourism system with income of 10,000 million dollars a year, through activities that promote conservation actions of fauna and wildlife. characteristic flora.
Through this initiative, and in agreement with BirdLife International, the University of Amazonas and the Ticuna tribal indigenous council, we will execute this plan with the aim of strengthening the ecotourism capacities of the Ticuna indigenous community, in the Colombian Amazon basin, to attract 20,000 tourists, taking advantage of the typical avian biodiversity of the Amazon.
The plan for the Strengthening of the Capacities for the Development of bird tourism in the Region in the Colombian Amazon basin will be executed during the period of August 2022 – 2025, with the aim of structuring a system of sustainable tourism development in the Amazon region of Colombia, for the benefit of the local community with the cooperation between the public and private sectors. This model of activities is a compilation and analysis of activities that will be developed during the execution of the program.
At the end of this plan, you will be achieved:
1. At least 50,000 ecotourists visit the Ticuna indigenous territory, in the Colombian Amazon basin by the end of 2025.
2. At least USD 1,500,000 in income is obtained from ecotourism activities in the Amazon basin.
3. Develop 5 birdwatching tour packages as a tourism attraction in the Ticuna indigenous territory.
4. Creation of an indigenous tourism secretariat in the Ticuna indigenous territory, led by 50 young Ticuna.
5. Training of 500 young indigenous Ticuna in tourism and development of ecotourism capacities.
Keywords: ecotourism, Ticuna indigenous community, Colombian Amazon basin, bird watching.
