Community Tourism in Ecuador: Sustainability and Socio-Ecological Resilience

Community tourism is a tourist modality that was put in vogue since the 1980s, its importance lies in its conception of development from the base of society through self-organization mechanisms. Community tourism has become a modality demanded by a specific market segment, and has been profusely studied by several authors worldwide. Ecuador is a pioneering country in promoting this tourism, as well as in its study, precisely through a work team made up of professors from the University of Cuenca, Ecuador and the Pablo de Olavide University of Seville, Spain that, through the project that is proposed here, is again constituted. The research carried out by the team and the products obtained in three books and scientific articles have had a significant impact that can be seen, among other indicators, in the academic appointments that these works have achieved. Ten years later this project aims to verify the status of community tourism in Ecuador through the study of emblematic experiences and from the analysis of strategic transverse axes: socio-ecological resile, governance and quality of the tourist service. To achieve the above, the information collected as well as the resulting works is available. Therefore, there is a baseline of the status of the situation at the beginning of the first research process and the projections of community tourism experiences present in the resulting works.

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