Litter impacts on scenery and tourism on the Colombian north Caribbean coast

Allan Thomas Williams, Nelson Guillermo Rangel-Buitrago, Giorgio Anfuso, Omar Cervantes and Camilo Mateo Botero

Tourism Management, 2016, vol. 55, issue C, 209-224

Abstract: This paper provides the location, scenery and litter evaluation of 35 Colombian Caribbean beaches (9 remote, 9 village, 14 urban and 3 resort). Four litter grades were found. A: excellent (5); B: good (8); C: fair (19) and D: poor (3). A Decision Value parameter (D), for scenery gave: Class I – extremely attractive/natural, D > 0.85, 6 sites; Class II – attractive/natural sites, D = 0.85 –0.65, 2 sites; Class III – mainly natural sites, few outstanding features, D = 0.65–0.4, 1 site; Class IV – mainly unattractive sites, D = 0.4 to zero, 6 sites; Class V – very unattractive sites, D = <0, 20 sites. Litter amounts placed most beaches into a poor scenic category and many scenic beaches could jump a grade by means of clean-ups. A graphic methodology highlighted beaches with contradictory results for litter/scenic grades. Tourists abhor littered beaches and clean-ups would improve scenery scores.

Keywords: Litter; Scenery; Tourism; Beach management; Colombia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2016.02.008

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