Planificación y gestión del turismo ecológico en el Medio Atlas oriental de Marruecos

Abstract

The diversification of tourist products in Morocco is revealed as one of the basic principles for the impulse and economic growth of the country, according to the document Strategy of the tourist development. Vision 2.010, since nowadays it shows a supply focused on conventional tourism (sun and beach, desert, imperial cities). The Ecological tourism is one of the possible alternatives that Morocco can supply, given the diversity of its landscapes and their ecological resources. In this article the potentialities for the ecotourism of the Middle Eastern Atlas to the south of Taza are considered, indicating the strengths and the opportunities, as well as detecting the main weak points. It is a zone with interesting ecological and natural values that, properly planned and managed, can be offered for the benefit of the visitors, the conservation of the natural wealth and the economic growth of the region. For this purpose a series of proposals of planning and management based on the study of their rural communities is made, in the direct analysis of the ecological resources and in the new scenes of cooperation and socio-economic planning of Morocco.