CONTROL AND COMPETENCE CONFLICTS IN THE TOURIST-RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY IN NATIONAL TOURIST AREAS. Case: Playa El Agua Village, Municipio Antolín del Campo, Estado Nueva Esparta, Venezuela

Abstract

The research paper is based on the conflicts within the legal competence of the public organisms that manage and control the tourist recreational activity of “Playa El Agua”. The theoretical reference that support the study relate to the tourist superstructure, law, competence and the tourism environment. The methodology applied in the study is defned as a field research with an analytic situational design, visualized from a temporal trans-sectional perspective, using qualitative research techniques as a documentary review, interview and observation. The analysis led to the conclusion that there are conflicts of legal nature between the public organisms that operate in “Playa El Agua”, which affect in many ways the tourism recreational activity in the area, basically, due to the failure to respect laws, ignorance, lack of coordination between the organisms and public employees with poor qualification.