Análisis del potencial turístico del cantón Portovelo, El Oro, el Ecuador.

Abstract

Portovelo is the first mining and cultural heritage center of Ecuador, it has different tourist attractions that embellish the canton with natural and cultural ornaments, in which the tourist is well received with friendly people at all times. In this present project a local tourist diagnosis was made, in order to measure the tourist potential of each one of them, by means of the descriptive analysis of the current situation of the canton and its tourist attractions, pointing out the most important points, the method of data collection, taking into account the opinions evidenced by the service providers with the information collection sheets. According to the results obtained, the attractions that have the highest score were determined according to the criteria weights, it was found that the attractions of the Portovelo Canton have tourist potential to be within a Development Plan.