Impact of the covid-19 pandemic on the economy and tourism of the Galapagos Islands

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Heydi Rizzo-Correa
Yeimer Prieto-López

Abstract

The authors of this research aim for people to know how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the economy and tourism of the Galapagos, thus wanting to encourage foreign and national tourists to visit the islands to increase economic income and support business ventures. each one of the inhabitants of the islands.
For this research several scientific methods were applied such as: observation, measurement and hypothetical deductive.
The objective of the article is to compare the statistics and make it possible to make people aware of the effect that the pandemic has caused on this place full of biodiversity and tourist models that encourage people to visit this landscape.
At the end of 2019, the pandemic emerged that caused the total stoppage of economic and tourist activities in Galapagos, Ecuador, and the rest of the world.
Galapagos is an island that has thirty-three thousand inhabitants according to the INEC projection during 2020 and most of its income comes from tourism. The incidence of the pandemic brought with it that during the beginning of 2020 until June, tourism has fallen by almost 70%, thus causing unemployment, companies that closed their doors, debts, deaths, shortages for reasons of forty that prohibited the entry and exit of both foreign and national tourists, etc. The pandemic led to the Galapagueños looking for other ways to survive within the islands due to the lack of economic income, causing in some cases migration to other cities in the country. This economic loss stopped by 60% many of the ongoing investigations that were being carried out within the islands. As part of the work, the inhabitants were made aware of the situation that occurs within Galapagos and how the economy can be safeguarded during the pandemic time and the protection of the population that lives in Galapagos.

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Rizzo-Correa, H., & Prieto-López, Y. (2021). Impact of the covid-19 pandemic on the economy and tourism of the Galapagos Islands. 593 Digital Publisher CEIT, 6(6-1), 580-589. https://doi.org/10.33386/593dp.2021.6-1.922
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Author Biographies

Heydi Rizzo-Correa, Universidad Tecnológica ECOTEC - Ecuador

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Studying the sixth semester in the International Business career, Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences at the ECOTEC University, graduated in 2019. I have participated in presentations of Research Projects.

Yeimer Prieto-López, Unidad Educativa Bilingüe Torremar | Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo (UEES) | Universidad Tecnológica ECOTEC - Ecuador

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Doctor of Educational Sciences. Bachelor of Education. Associate Professor. Professor at Universidad Tecnológica ECOTEC. Faculty of Marketing and Comunication. Professor at UEES in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and in the Master of Educational Management. Teacher and Academic Auditor at Torremar Bilingual School. He has participated in various national and international events. He has more than twenty publications in Indexed Magazines, such as Latindex and Scielo. Doctoral Thesis Tutor at the Universidad del Rosario, Argentina, and the University of Holguín, Cuba. He has received more than one hundred hours of training in Education and Pedagogy in 2020 and 2021.

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