Social catastrophes and its impact on the tourist activities of Quito, Ecuador. The national stoppage of october 2019.

Abstract

This article, according to the criteria of most catastrophic é classifications, takes the catastropheterm to a little widespreaddimension, i.e. social causes and their effects against tourism;; it seeks to insert this symptom into the subversionsegment, specifically because of the economic tragedies and losses that produce the sector in the short and medium term. In this sense, the objective of this work was to analyze the impact of the October 2019 national unemployment on tourism activities in the city of Quito, Ecuador. Inorder to carry out theinvestigation, a documentary bibliographic review was carried out, which allowed to support the position of the authors on the basis of information collected and related to the case of national unemployment carried out inoctober 2019 in Ecuador. It was found in the review that theeffects de of the catastrophes,regardless of their origin, arediverse, but all impact the population and its economy as it did in the city of Quito. Whilethese are of a natural nature,with a reduced duration oftime, their action is devastating, the damage and restoration require considerable time and effort;; but there are also catastrophes from other origins, such as the human, with characteristics other than the previous one, where the time of tragedy can be extended and become torture; as could be the case of a social uprising with repercussions that will always go against innocent affected, thetourist and the common citizen.