Análisis de la contribución del turismo comunitario al mantenimiento de la identidad cultural en la provincia del Cañar

Abstract

The province of Cañar covers a large variety of natural attractions forming great landscapes of the High Land region in Ecuador with large elevations of extensive plans dedicated to farming and livestock. On the other, there are attractions of historic character, one of these attractions corresponds the archaeological giving a well known regard to Azogues as the Archaeological Capital of Ecuador thanks to the Archaeological Site of Ingapirca. This is a great cultural wealth of the Cañaris people giving their traditions, celebrations, and their daily festivals to our country in a meaningful way. Agriculture, livestock are the main source of incomes of the region, not to mention also the remittances of migrants that have contributed local development. Nowadays, a new source of income that allows an advantage of the region is tourism, especially community tourism which has developed its sources many years ago. The activity involves negative and positive impacts that must be analyzed in order to establish whether a contribution that helps on the growth of the province or if this contribution attempts against the population. Tourism must be carried out a planned manner through projects that connect the everyday life of citizens with activities that generates interest for tourists, so in this way both parties benefits from each other.