ANÁLISIS DEL DESARROLLO TURÍSTICO Y PERCEPCIÓN DE LA COMUNIDAD PALACIO REAL

Abstract

One of the forms of tourism that currently helps the growth of this industry is community tourism, which aims to help the growth of communities through the recognition and dissemination of the culture, traditions and customs of each society. The efforts to make tourism as sustainable as possible, has caused countries to seek strategies that allow them to offer products and services to capture the attention of people as long as respecting the environment. The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the current status of community tourism in Ecuador, through the use of the case study and the application of interviews to the Royal Palace community as an object of study. In the Royal Palace community it was observed that community tourism has improved the living conditions of its inhabitants, since it has contributed to the development of it, however, the presence of tourists has caused the ancestral identity of the community to be go losing over the years.