Diseño de la ruta eco turística Tulcán Maldonado, en la provincia del Carchi

Abstract

Abstract:The Tulcán canton -Carchi province presents a natural setting with great potential for ecotourism, its geographical location and its diversity of altitude levels provide the right space to develop organized tourism.The present investigation related to the design of an ecotourism route on the Tulcán -Maldonado route, had the general objective of designing an eco-tourist route based on the identified natural resources, for this the resource identification card of the Ministry of Tourism was applied.It was important to carry out a tourist situational diagnosis of the sector, where the environment of the Tulcán -Maldonado route was analyzed, resulting in a real panorama of local tourism, and representatives of the social actors of local tourism were also incorporated into the investigation. who were interviewed as a participatory action and in this way the SWOT matrix was prepared with their respective strategies.The main results of the research were: 31 natural resources identified, 14tourist activities that take place along the way, an eco-tourist route designed based on the design thinking methodology.