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The objective pursued by this research was to identify the areas of opportunity in the tourist destination as intelligent and influence the quality of life of the local community. The methodology to which it attended started from a documentary review and three instruments were applied to know the reality of the region, one to the local community, another to tourist and another to a government actor. The lines that must be followed were identified so that the tourist destination can be projected as intelligent and the quality of life of the inhabitants is improved. The main implication of this work is the limitation with respect to decision-making to exert a change at the operational level. The main results obtained were the opinions of actors in the area under study: community, tourist and government. It was concluded, based on the results, the main areas of opportunity that the tourist destination must work and develop together in order to project itself as intelligent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze the interrelation between tourism management, TIC and the new intelligence approach. This research is non-experimental, descriptive and cross-sectional in design; it is carried out through a quantitative approach that is implemented through the survey method through a structured questionnaire. Among the main results is that nine out of 10 visitors agree or strongly agree that territorial intelligence be used design smart tourist destinations, the same number believe that tourism is directly related to territorial intelligence. Among the main conclusions, the integration of the tourist into the territory is observed, not only as a visitor, but also with the vision of improving its conditions and contributing to the implementation of strategies that allow the consolidation of Puerto Vallarta as an intelligent tourist destination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Knowing if governance is working efficiently has become a matter of interest, in the face of the demand of increasingly complex societies. Hence the attempt to build objective indicators that allow it to be accurately measured. However, to assess existing coordination problems in a metropolitan area whose vocation is tourism, current governance indicators are limited. Through the case study of the Puerto Vallarta Metropolitan Area (ZMPV) we will realize these limitations. The analysis method is inductive, based on statistical information and specialized literature review. One conclusion is the convenience of measuring governance in metropolitan tourist areas with an analytical framework that integrates metropolitan and tourist indicators. These indicators have been managed separately, together they offer more complete and reliable information for the planning and management of metropolitan tourist destinations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The discussion about nonsustainable ecological systems is in vogue. The debate has led to the biophysical analysis of "human-nature" relationships. This analysis is an important way to determine human impacts on the Earth, based on the colonization of nature and social activities that consider matter and energy flows through appropriation, transformation, distribution, consumption, and excretion. Tourism has appropriated and characterized various types of ecosystems that represent the use of a finite set of spatially distributed resources. The observation of marine mammals, such as whales, in natural protected areas attracts many tourists each year, and this activity indirectly generates carbon dioxide that is released into the atmosphere. This carbon emission, which is accompanied by the increased scale of tourism, may hamper global conservation goals. We describe the use of the Ecological Footprint tool as a sustainability indicator of humpback whale-watching activity in Bahía de Banderas, Marietas Islands National Park, in Nayarit, México, to examine the global impact of this tourist activity on ecosystems. Calculations are based on the Ecological Footprint method using the consumption/productivity ratio--converting costs of goods and services into consumption of resource inputs and then translating these to surface units. The findings show that the mean whale-watching footprint in the study area is 46.85 ha. This figure is low when compared to other estimated footprints of ecotourism activities in the world. The discussion examines how the results of this type of analysis can be used to improve tourism planning with a view to promoting sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]