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Table 1: Key Facts Associated to the Definition of Sustainable Development Concept Year Event/Contributions 1980 1987 “Our Common Future” Report (Brundtland Report of the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development). 1991 2012 Rio + 20 Conference of Nations. A new sharing is presented whose objectives were focused on renewing the commitment to sustainable development. 2015 2018 18th Meeting of the Statistics Committee at UNWTO. Progress towards a consistent and coherent statistical approach to measure sustainable tourism. 2019 UNWTO/UN, 2019. "Reference report on the integration of sustainable consumption and production patterns in tourism policies." PR 1904. IV. M ethodology a) Methods for Measuring Tourism Contribution to Economic Growth Various methods have been used to measure the economic impact of tourism, such as the significance analysis that analyzes the size and structure of the tourism sector; the impact analysis that analyzes the money spent by tourists and the cost-benefit analysis focused on evaluating the feasibility and efficiency of tourism projects. (Zurub, et al., 2015) Specifically, there are some methodologies to estimate the impact of tourism on GDP, such as the Tourism Satellite Accounts, the Computable General Equilibrium, as well as the growth of tourism GDP as a percentage of GDP growth total (Ivanov & Webster, 2007; Rasool et al., 2021). Ivanov and Webster (2007) developed a method for assessing tourism contribution to economic growth by means of the real GDP growth rate per capita, because by definition economic growth is equal to the real GDP growth rate per capita. This is taken in a disaggregated way in order to have, separately, growth generated by tourism and the generated by other sectors. The methodology proposed by Ivanov and Webster has been applied in several countries (Brida, et al., 2008; Such, et al., 2009; Fuinhas, et al., 2020). Information collected from secondary sources, based on papers and researches already issued, was also included. Likewise, data was collected from entities such as the UNWTO, the Ministry of Tourism of Ecuador (MINTUR) and the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC), accountability reports from autonomous governments, as well as Interviews and surveys carried out to tourism professionals, academics and managers. The current state of tourism in Pastaza was verified from the Weighed Participatory Strategic Test (WPST), a combination of two traditional test methods, SWOT and Delphi (Miller, 2001; Choi & Sirakaya, 2005). A workshop was held in order to assess tourism performance in Pastaza, where key players involved in local tourism management attended, furthermore SWOT analysis was applied. After all the criteria had been analyzed and evaluated, the lists were reduced and the prevailing ideas identified by voting were used for the Analysis, together with tourist environment elements (Weaknesses, Threats, Strengths and Opportunities). The environmental elements identified in the SWOT analysis upon Pastaza tourism development were evaluated by experts with close links between professional, institutional and/or research activity. The analysis was carried out using a Likert-type scale (1-5) (from 1 = none to 5 = maximum), by means of which it was granted the importance each element in the tourist context of the province has. The elements were validated using Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficients, an internal consistency analysis using corrected total correlation coefficients of elements and questions of the quantitative aspects with different reliability levels to validate those items. Tourism sector is analyzed in this research based on statistics from hotels and restaurants. A Gross Added Value (GAV) indicator was used for measuring the added value performed by each sector in the final goods and services production process. GAV was studied in each specific activity in the period between 2010 and 2019. © 2022 Global Journals Volume XXII Issue III Version I 63 ( ) Global Journal of Human Social Science - Year 2022 E Tourism and Economy Growth in the Ecuadorian Province of Pastaza "I World Strategy for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources" (United Nations Environment Program). "The World Strategy for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources" (United Nations Environment Program and World Wide Fund for Nature). International Network on Regional Economics, Mobility and Tourism Organization. This event is considered as a first step of basic statistical information for the regions and other territorial aggregates.