Análisis de las prácticas del turismo comunitario, bajo el enfoque de los principios de la economía social y solidaria en las experiencias turísticas de Kinti Wasi (Cañar) y Kushi Waira (Azuay)

Abstract

The current system has excluded and marginalized a large part of the population from economic relations where a few percent of people has a lot and the major percent of people have little acces to resourses, starting from this reality born the idea of looking for new economic alternatives, one of them is the Social and solidarity economy (ESS), focused on different activities such as Community Tourism (TC). This research have the target of analyze the practices of Community Tourism, focused in the principles of the Social and Solidarity Economy in the tourism experiences of Kinti Wasi (Cañar) and Kushi Waira (Azuay). The methodology that has been used to carry out this research is a qualitative approach based on the guidelines of the case analysis where aspects of explanatory type were taken into account, being a case study of multiple typology. The techniques used to collected information were: participative observation, semi-structured interviews and secondary information analysis. The analysis has been done through Atlas.ti software. The TC as an economic task under the values that is practiced is directly linked to the ESS, in other words, if the cultural values of a certain community are solid, all their productive process will be guided by them.