https://www.travelpulse.com/news/destinations/galapagos-tourism-increased-14-percent-in-2018.html
Another thing I am extremely passionate about is the status of my other countries in terms of economic status and how the people are doing. In Ecuador as with many other countries there’s a lot of poverty. Within poverty though many have the false idea that by visiting these countries as tourists it is helping the country with this crisis. This is extremely untrue in most cases if not all. As described in the above article more than 275,000 travelers go to the Galapagos every year. If this is the case then why is Ecuador not more wealthy? The answer is simple. Tourists only come to countries like Ecuador to visit one place like the Galapagos. They pour all their money into that tourist location and leave the rest of the country in the same economic status. The money obtained from this tourist spot isn’t properly distributed for one main reason. Most of the hotels and resorts found on the Galapagos are owned my American companies. So the money never technically even enters the pockets of Ecuadorian. This is a very real problem that is just giving tourists the false idea that they are helping these countries like Ecuador.
