Retos y oportunidades de la certificación en sostenibilidad ambiental en Colombia:caso Palomino Guajira Colombiana

Abstract

This document was developed with the purpose of responding to a request from the hotel sector of the Palomino beach in the municipality of Dibulla in view of the need to be certified in the relevant sectorial regulations for lodging establishments. For this, resources of the research fund were managed from the Santo Tomas University that allowed the development of a project of the “Economics and Environment” research seedbed together with funds from the Palomino hotel association. This document compiles the results of the diagnosis in which surveys were conducted in the second half of 2017 to eleven (11) hotels of the sector chosen randomly in order to generate a diagnosis with respect to five (5) predefined requirements of the NTS TS 002 which corresponded to General, Sociocultural, Economic, Environmental, and Management requirements. Through the results obtained it was possible to prove that none of the hotels sampled to date fulfilled 100 % of the requirements stipulated by the norm for which obtaining the tourist certification offered by this standard would be denied for theses accommodation and lodging establishments, this due to the multiple shortcomings that the hotels present in topics such as the formalization of employment, the inadequate relationship they presented with the different types of communities in the sector and major failures in the saving of natural resources such as eater, energy and paper, which could be concluded that the shortcomings or successes of the establishments and the importance given to reach item was linked to the purchasing power and the type of tourist that frequents the establishments, because for this less acquisitions has more shortcomings in the requirements of the norm.