Plan de revitalización cultural para fomentar el turismo de la comunidad El Edén, cantón Francisco de Orellana.

Abstract

The Eden community does not have a manual of strategies for community tourism, causing a lack of knowledge of the intangible cultural heritage by local, national and foreign tourists, which is why this research focused on developing a cultural revitalization plan to promote tourism in El Eden Community, in Francisco de Orellana, through direct work with the nationality settled in the sector, to rescue their identity using the methodology of Victor Hugo Torres, Community Cultural Revitalization Manual. The methodology implemented had a mixed approach, i.e., quantitative, and qualitative, a non-experimental design of transversal type was used, so it was developed in a certain time; for the unit of analysis, the people in charge of the tourist sector and the visitors were considered, obtaining a sample of 100 for the surveys made to the visitors. The results obtained were tabulated in Excel and represented in graphs with their equivalent percentages, yielding clear answers about the activities and tourist attractions. It was concluded that the Eden community has natural and cultural biodiversity with a great potential for tourism, which requires greater interest on the part of cultural promoters and public entities so that they do not lose their identity and the cultural revitalization activities are intended to be a cultural attraction in community tourism, being recommended the participation of both children and young people in the revitalization processes, who will be tools for conservation, valuation and use of resources for tourism development, strengthening and respecting ancestral knowledge.