El balneario "Dos Bocas", como aporte al desarrollo turístico socio-económico y sostenible de la parroquia El Progreso del cantón Pasaje.

Abstract

Actually, tourism is one of the most widely used tools by governments as a development tool. Between 2016 and 2017, Ecuador had an estimated growth of 14% in the number of tourists that arrived to the country. In El Oro Province, specifically in Pasaje city, there is a health resort known as Dos Bocas, which is located in El Progreso parish. Dos Bocas presents certain faults of promotion and tourist plaza. The following study aimed to detail the basic concepts necessary to develop correctly the sustainable tourism, also to know the opinion and perspective of the inhabitants of this community on tourism, additional to understand how the tourist product should be improve. In this research, two methods were used. The first was exploratory method, in which information was collected through surveys of 15 questions with multiple-choice answer and the sample were 358 people from the community surrounding Dos Bocas. Through descriptive method, the data was tabulated, and show percentages in a pie chart and described each of the graphs. The results showed that 66% of the surveyed population knows that Dos Bocas is a potential touristic place, 50% of the respondents agree to exploit Dos Bocas biodiversity for tourism. On the other hand, only 20% of the respondents are disagree with the tourism development and 30% of the respondent unknown ecotourism. In the same way, the community know that there are certain failures in the touristic offer of this place, mainly in the poor promotion, infrastructure and recreation activities. The surveys and bibliography review showed that the best way to develop tourism focus on sustainable approach, in which a service generates an increase in the community income, maintaining environmental balance and traditions of the place. In addition, the study found that the community supports tourism due to they associate it with economic development, and therefore social development. Finally, the lack of investment in infrastructure difficult opportunities for recreation, leisure and food for tourist. It is necessary to carry out workshops and seminars to complement the knowledge that the individuals of the community have so that they can provide a better service to tourists, complementing the need to generate interest in the municipality increasing the support of tourism in Dos Bocas.