Valoración económica generada por la restauración del ferrocarril y sus iconos turísticos en el cantón el Tambo (2009-2013

Abstract

The proposed research is framed in the study of economic valuation generated by the restoration of the railway and its tourist icons in the canton El Tambo, in order to determine: what are the direct beneficiaries of these works carried out, which has improved from are the implementation of the tourism project, which has generated impact and that allowed the valuation method applied to housing as a special case study with hedonic price.

Consecutively the analysis in the area (survey) has verified that the effects of the restoration of the railway works are summarized in: improving the city by the quality of buildings; increase in housing prices; increase in business; raising the self-esteem of the population; growth of domestic and foreign tourism and projection of the Inn at national and international levels; plus the present investigation established the rising price of housing, in which valuation method was applied hedonic prices, identifying which assets are comprised of two components: permanent (land); and transient (buildings); that make up the physical unit of real property which is the subject transaction in a contract of sale. The value of these goods in the local market, are expressed by housing characteristics including the proximity to the area of restoration and rehabilitation of the railway works, which form part of the development of the city.