Galapagos, Nature, Heritage, and Contemplation

Bibliographic Data

ID13124709
AuthorsMarco Lenin Lara Calderón (0000-0002-8395-9932, Universidad Internacional del Ecuador, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume8
Issue8
Pages335-335
Publication date2025-08-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHeritage (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2571-9408 • E-ISSN: 2571-9408
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/heritage8080335
OpenAlexW4413468323
LanguageEN
References cited14

When we hear of the Galapagos Islands, we think of a place of natural conservation and biological diversity, with the archipelago having been a World Heritage Site since 1978 and a Biosphere Reserve since 1984, expanding its area in 2019. In this study, while exploring the islands, we found that some places brought us spiritual delight, fostered internal recollection, and promoted reflection. Both islanders and tourists visited and evaluated these places using conceptual and combined methodological tools to determine which of these places constituted contemplation sites. The results allowed for a variety of sites that generate new experiences, imagination, spatial holograms, and mental routes for a user to identify, which allows for the creation of new recommended tourist routes and the categorization of intangible heritage, which can be potentiated by the community and tourists in a controlled manner, as indicated by this research

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Archipelago · Art · Biosphere · Categorization · Contemplation · Cultural heritage · Cultural heritage management · Diversity (politics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Geography · Heritage tourism · Natural (archaeology · Sociology · Tourism · Variety (cybernetics · World heritage · Anthropology · Computer Science · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · History · Philosophy · Ecology