Estructuración de la Unidad técnica Municipal de Turismo para el cantón El Cármen, provincia de Manabí

Abstract

This research proposes: To organize the Municipal Technical Unit of Tourism for the El Carmen canton, Manabí province; for the functional organizational structure of the UTMT was defined to establish a management model with programs and projects with its respective Annual Operational Planning, it is ended with the formulation of a model ordinance to be carried out the implementation of this unit in the Municipal Government of El Carmen. The first specific object was developed through the review and analysis of the respective legal framework of the tourist activity, especially Organic Code of Territorial Organization, Autonomy and Decentralization (COOTAD), where the legal procedure is found for the decentralization of tourism for the case of the Decentralized Autonomous Governments (GAD’s); after doing that an administrative model for the Unity was defined. Later, programs and projects were designed, based on proposed objectives for the Technical Unit in the functional organizational structure of this research and the ministerial agreement No. 20060085 for the transfer of tourism skills; also it proceeded to the preparation of POA for the first four years of operation. Then, the development of an ordinance kind for the implementation of the Unit, that was performed considering the last resolution of the National Council of Competences (CNC) that defines powers and competences of GAD’s in tourism matter. The research paper concludes with the proposal of authorities GADMEC assume the responsibilities that he law gives them in tourism matter to benefit the population with the tourist activity as a tool, taking as its starting point the approval of the proposed ordinance.

Keywords: Tourist decentralization, tourist legal framework, tourism management model.