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2.- The tourist island
This island holds numerous tourist resources at universal level, with the condition of “
exotic “, “ unique “, “ historical “, “ prestigious “ and “ cosmic “.
These tourist resources are provided fundamentally by each one of the other islands and
must be operated, administered and equipped by the Tourist Island.
The archaeological island will provide a certain selected number of restorations, without
repairs nor adjustments, for the general, non-specialized, tourism, located in different
points of the island and with clear selection of age and cultural periods. “Ayus”, villages,
ceremonial places, houses with their surroundings of hen houses, culture fields and homes,
caverns, quarries, parks, creeks, markets, etc. All in a sufficient number to cause the visual
impact required and the objective image of the historical and prehistoric reality of the
Easter Island’s culture.
At the same time, for the selective tourism, the archaeological island can provide areas with
investigation material, in the state in which they are, without recovering, but with facilities
for the observation and the analysis.
The museum or museums of the Archaeological Island, as well as the very University
Research Center, laboratories, exclusive excavation, study days and the investigator
represent other tourist resources that must be considered as possible contributions to the
Tourist Island.
This one must coordinate these contributions with all the other tourist resources that the
other islands provide along with its own ones in order to administer themand to equip them,
within volcano landscapes, marine landscapes, suburban, urban and rural landscapes.
This island must aim at solving the problem of the lodging and food for the great tourism
and the youth tourism on the basis of village pensions, small hotels and shelters of moderate
costs, without damaging the small hotels and luxury hotels for the tourism of the wealthy
and exclusive classes.
This island must provide an easy and comfortable accessibility to its tourist resources
and complement it all with texts, stories, planes and information that can be required to
communicate in a brief time the maximum of the great values that this territory contains.
The non-specialized tourism also requires exotic beaches to complement the image of the
tropical islands that exists in the world. It is essential to shorten the “distance-time “ of
white beaches of Anaquena, flanked with coconut palms (planted), and to immediately put
them to the disposition of the tourist and not to leave them as an adventure stroll several
hours away along a bad road. It is necessary to equip them with a creek for yachts and
spaces for aquatic sports, entertainment, restaurants, cafeteria, hotels and housing. There,
a resort that can be the base of a new nucleus of human settlement in the island must be
developed.
It is not impossible to structure other similar beaches, in the South Coast and the West
Coast, with artificial or caused sands, of colors that can go from black to red according to
the geologic characteristics of the ground of the island.
The relaxation of beaches with tropical landscape located with sobriety, without denying