Challenges and realities to face for an inclusive tourism education

Abstract

The development of tourism as a strategy to transform the productive matrix of Ecuador, demands improvements in the different tourist modalities offered by destinations. Hence the need to venture into inclusive tourism. The Technical University of Manabí, is immersed in the curricular design of the Tourism career. It is projected and committed to inclusive tourism education, a renewal attempt, with respect to the curricula analyzed in the pertinence study and through the application of pedagogy compared to Ecuadorian, Latin American, European, Asian and North American curricula. The authors of the article, has been little approached in the educational environments of institutions of higher education where there are few international experiences supported by Pedagogy as a science of education of man / woman, committed to delivering to society full human beings, Capable of building a better world. The article proposes to offer theoretical and methodological reflections on inclusive tourism to promote tourism career, inclusive tourism education. The results show the factors and strategies to be considered and the main strategic directions to achieve this.