El turismo rural: una alternativa de desarrollo para el cantón de Vázquez de Coronado

El cantón de Vázquez de Coronado cuenta con una serie de ventajas competitivas tanto en sus recursos naturales y paisajísticos como en la coordinación entre diversos actores organizacionales comunales, lo cual brinda las condiciones para el desarrollo de actividades de turismo rural; esto acompañado por capacitación y asesoramiento técnico a los empresarios con el propósito de ayudarles a cambiar sus esquemas de gestión familiar y de brindarles una serie de conocimientos estratégicos y de idioma, es la base para impulsar un desempeño importante en la economía de la zona, facilitando una adecuada distribución del ingreso y una mejor calidad de vida de sus habitantes; situación que siempre debe tener como eje orientador el respeto al medio ambiente y a la cultura tradicional del cantón. Abstract The Canton of Vázquez of having Crowned has a many competitive advantages not only in its natural resources and but also in its beautiful landscapes. The advantages joined to the efforts of community forces provide the businessmen of the town receive training on how to manage their enterprises in accordance the environment. Also, in order to promote the economic development of the town, businessmen receive language training facilitating an appropriate distribution of the entrance and a better quality of their inhabitants’ life; this situation that should always be the regulating axis to respect to the environment and the traditional culture of the canton.

Environmental Education Experience with Students from One Costa Rican Rural School

This article describes a teaching experience developed in Environmental Education in a Costa Rican rural school with students from ninth year, characterized by the dynamics of a workshop in which stresses the participation in the construction of initiatives to address environmental problems detected by the youth in their communities. The article aims to contribute to the construction of a pedagogical model of self-management training and education of young people in environmental sectors, tourism and agriculture, in the conviction that education constitutes a vital alternative for understanding and solving environmental problems.

ENCADENAMIENTOS PRODUCTIVOS Y CLUSTERS: UNA ESTRATEGIA PARA FORTALECER LAS MICRO Y PEQUEÑAS EMPRESAS DEL TURISMO RURAL

Los modelos de gestión empresarial deben estar en constante actualización según las diversas exigencias del entorno globalizador, razón por la cual, las micro y pequeñas empresas requieren de una visión estratégica y de  generación de calidad y oportunidad en los productos y servicios que deben ofrecer.  Para esto, requiere una capacidad de romper los paradigmas de gestión que le funcionaron en otros momentos de la historia, para poder enfrentar las exigencias del entorno actual. Dentro de éste escenario de mercado, se encuentran muchas micro y pequeñas empresas dedicadas a la actividad del turismo, y particularmente del turismo rural, sector que es uno de los más dinámico en las economías que han generado estrategias para estimularlo y conservarlo; unas de esas estrategias de organización son la conformación de clusters y los encadenamientos productivos, los cuales son empresas que se encuentran dentro de un mismo sector y en una determinada zona geográfica, con el propósito de optimizar sus recursos y brindar servicio integrado y mejor al segmento de mercado que atienden.Palabras claves: Turismo rural, clusters, encadenamientos productivos, micro y pequeñas empresas, gestión turística.Abstracts: Business management models must be under continuous updating to keep up with the different requirements from a globalizing environment.  For this reason micro and small businesses need a strategic vision and the generation of quality and opportunity in the products and services they must offer.  To accomplish this end, they need the capacity to break management models that worked in other times of history, to be able to meet all the challenges from the current environment.  It is within this market scenario that many micro and small businesses are found, businesses that are dedicated to the activity of tourism, and particularly rural tourism, a sector which happens to be one of the most dynamic in the economies that have generated strategies to stimulate it and keep it; one of these organization strategies are the design of clusters and productive chains, that are those businesses found within one single sector and in a particular geographical region, in order to optimize its resources and be able to give an integrated and better service to the market segment they serve.Key words: Rural, tourism., clusters, productive chains, micro and small businesses., tourism management.

EL TURISMO Y LA CONVIVENCIA COMUNAL EN UN ÁREA RURAL-COSTERA

En el presente artículo el lector podrá encontrar algunos aspectos  relacionados  con el turismo como actividad económica y su expresión concreta en las comunidades de Tambor y Montezuma de Cóbano, provincia de Puntarenas, Costa Rica. Pero además y es la parte fundamental del mismo se hace referencia aquí al impacto que ha tenido este sector en la convivencia comunal y cotidianidad de esas comunidades. Este impacto se analiza en tres dimensiones específicas: la socioeconómica, la cultural y la ambiental. En síntesis y como producto de los efectos del turismo, la zona analizada sufre una transformación importante que engloba la convivencia comunal; convivencia que en sus manifestaciones generales coincide en cierta medida con el contexto nacional y mundial, pero que también tiene su particularidad. En este sentido, se nota una re-dimensión en la individualidad de actor y sector social, pero además en la totalidad de la convivencia comunal. Esta re-dimensión, si bien es producto de actividades económicas  de sistemas productivos y de nuevas estrategias de desarrollo globalizantes, se manifiesta en lo social, en lo cultural y en la relación sociedad naturaleza ó ambiente a nivel local, como un producto más divertido de la actividad turística.   Abstract: This paper discusses the effects of the tourism industry in the communities of Tambor and Montezuma, Cobano, province of Puntarenas, Costa Rica. If focuses in the impact and tourism in peoples everyday life from on three- fold perspective: socio-economic, cultural and evironmental. Regarding the impact of tourism in the socioeconomic dimensión the study revels an important change in the labor market, which was traditionally related to farming and fishing, now oriented to the production of goods and services for tourists and other economic activities take place in medium and small scales and involve men and women, Young  and adults. They generate different social and interpersonal relations, which contribute to change comunal daily coexistence. In the cultural discussion tourism had changed daily like in these communities and patterns of social coexistence. Among the most significant changes are customs and holidays, clothing styles, the loss of traditional forms of communication, the beginning of different ways of dialoging and new relationships among neighbors, and even of the way people talk and how and whit they eat. In relation to the environment the new ways to relate to nature and of trying to manage and handle the natural resources the awareness and the new attitude in regard to the environmental situation, as well as the wormiest for conservation. For having clean and healthy surroundings, among others, had the collective levels. To summarize as a result of the effects of tourism an important transformation is talking place in the communities under study that coincides with the national and global context to a certain extent, but to also has its own particularities. In this sense, it is noticeable a re-definition of the individuality of each actor and social sector and in the totality of the communal identify as well. Eventhough that redefinition is the result of economic activities, of economic systems and new globalized developmental strategies, also effects in the social and cultural aspects and in the relation men-nature in a local level.