Ecotourism sustainability policies: An economic vision

The analysis of tourism in the economy implies a continuous development of theories on which this social tendency can be explained. Faced with a continuous interrelation between tourist actors, the diagnosis of their behavior in the face of causes and effects generated in a tourist destination, demandsa considerable consideration to be explained and allow the establishment of a political framework that promotes a cooperative development among them. The present article analyzes these interrelationships within sustainable ecotourism activity, through theapplication of Game Theory (Neumann & Morgenstern, 1944), considering the Nash equilibrium criterion (Nash, 1950), where the behavioral analysis between The host and the tourist allows to outline certain parameters for the development of policies to pursue a cooperative work among them, promoting sustainability in order to predict an adequate production of ecotourism, taking as a case study the Galapagos Islands in ecuadorian territory; concluding that the best interrelation involves a balanced work between the host and the tourist's view of using the resources of a destination for the practice of ecotourism in a sustainable way, and based on this criterion, the policies to be designed must follow the standards and regulations to a global benefit whose purpose allows the economic improvement of the resident population and an address to the responsible tourist.