Plan estratégico de turismo comunitario para el cantón Limón Indanza, provincia de Morona Santiago, periodo 2017 – 2020

Abstract

The present Strategic Plan of community tourism to Limón Indanza Canton, Morona Santiago Province period 2017-2020 aims to boost tourism in rural communities in the region to promote their socio-economic development. The qualitative method used, allowed to describe and interpret the information obtained through the survey applied to inhabitants of the canton and interview the mayor of the entity. In addition, the strengths weaknesses opportunities threats matrix (FODA.) developed which allowed determining the following results: the entity does not have a planning which allows cantonal authorities to promote the development of ventures linked to community tourism, has a deficient infrastructure to promote tourism, has limited institutional budget to foster all programmed activities, poor community training in management, and advertising of community tourism. This work concluded the lack of a technically elaborated planning to promote community tourism in the canton discourages residents to undertake innovative projects that improve the offer quality in accordance the visitors' demands and requirements. The research paper recommends to Autonomous Government Cantonal Decentralized of Limón Indanza, as the highest body of public management in Canton to put in practice the present Strategic Plan as a technical management tool that will allow a better management of the programmed projects to improve the tourism infrastructure and the sector economy.