Exploración de las actitudes de los residentes hacia el turismo de base comunitaria en la parroquia Cochapata cantón Nabón, Ecuador

Abstract

Community-based tourism represents an opportunity to establish sustainability mechanisms for everyone´s benefit from the social, economic and environmental aspects. With this background, this study proposed as its main objective: To explore the attitudes of residents towards community-based tourism in the Cochapata parish of the Nabón canton, Ecuador year 2023. The study was exploratory of qualitative type; semi-structured interviews were applied to residents and workers of the GAD of Cochapata selected from a convenience sampling. The results around the attitudes that residents have about community tourism is positive from the social point of view because they consider that community ties have been established between them; however, they also perceive that there is no alliance between the community and the parish government. It is concluded that around community tourism predominate social attitudes, however there are weaknesses around the economic and environmental ones. Keywords: attitudes. environmental. social. Community-Based Tourism