Actualización del inventario de atractivos turísticos del cantón San Felipe de Oña con la metodología del Ministerio de Turismo (2018)

Abstract

The Ministry of Tourism, which is the regulatory authority for the tourist activity at national level and the Organic Code of Territorial Organization, Autonomy and Decentralization (COOTAD) that indicates tourism as a productive activity that can be managed by different levels of government delegates to Decentralized Autonomous Governments (GAD) the regulation, control and promotion the tourist development of the district. Based on the mentioned provisions, this intervention project titled ¨Updating of the tourist attraction inventory of San Felipe de Oña with the methodology of the Ministry of Tourism (2018)¨ was based on a previous inventory done in 2016, which it determined a 56 total attractions. Therefore, this project was developed along with San Felipe de Oña GAD technicians, who participated in the development of the previous inventory. Currently, due to on-site visits and secondary information, it has been decided to establish a 22 attractions inventory, of which 11 of them are set in the cultural manifestation category and the remaining 11 are identified as natural attractions. After selecting and including them in the updated inventory, using the ArcGis 10.5 version tool, the maps were designed and this determinate that San Felipe de Oña canton has three potential centers and one potential area, based on the information contained in the data sheets and the location and distribution of the attractions proposed on the maps.