Actualización del inventario de atractivos turísticos del Cantón Cañar con la metodología del Ministerio de Turismo (2017)

Abstract

Cañar canton possesses an inventory of tourist attractions done in 2004 with the IDOM and CETUR methodologies, in this way, the need of the project “Updating of the tourist attractions inventory of Cañar with the methodology of the Ministry of Tourism (2017)” arises in order to organize the attractions into a hierarchy and generate tourist places of Ecuador of Ministry of Tourism of 2017. In 2018, this methodology had some variations, with the main objective of establishing a planning tool in order to strengthen the tourist development and revitalize the economy of the canton, taking advantage of the natural and cultural attractions which are the raw material of a territory that generates interest for visitors. The Ministry of Tourism delegates the autonomous decentralized local governments to elaborate and update the inventory of tourist attractions; in this way, the local intercultural government of Cañar identified 25 possible tourist attractions; however, when doing the field visits, revisions of primary and secondary sources and the application of the criteria of the systematized specifications, it was determined that the canton counts in 23 tourist attractions, being 8 of natural type and 15 of the cultural one; reason why, Cañar has been designated as “Archeological and Cultural capital of Ecuador”. Therefore, the canton meets the optimal conditions and presents three centers and a potential tourist area, portrayed in maps which were done with ArcGis program version 10.3. Moreover, a comparative chart between the former and the current inventory is presented.