Alternative proposal of tourist routes in Continental Ecuador

Abstract

The present work was born from the academic interest of complementing the theoretical knowledge learned in the classroom, with the practical knowledge obtained in the field work (academic tours), through the gathering of primary and secondary information; in this case, was born as a training project in the Tourism career of the Technical University of Cotopaxi. We worked with 13 parallels distributed in the 9 academic cycles of the race, with a total of 366 students and 13 tutors. The Manual of Generation of Tourist Routes and Itineraries of the Ministry of Tourism of Ecuador was used as methodology for the present research project, identifying, categorizing, georeferencing, mapping and describing 194 tourist attractions, and proposing 9 alternative tourist routes with their respective tourist itinerary and Maps of alternate routes traveled in the Continental Ecuador, offering both national tourists and international tourists new alternatives for tourism in the country.