Participación del trabajador social en la reestructuración de la economía de emprendimientos turísticos en la comuna de Bajo Alto, 2020

Abstract

The present investigative work was carried out with the purpose of seeking possible solutions to the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic has brought with it on the economy of the merchants of the Bajo Alto commune, managing to capture that as a result of this event they generated effects such as unemployment, poverty and the loss of small businesses that were dedicated to the tourism sector, and even more so with the confinement and biosecurity measures such as vehicle restrictions and the limited capacity of people adopted by the National COE. The pandemic undoubtedly changed and drastically transformed humanity and had a notable impact on our country, taking as a reference that Ecuador is in a difficult economic context in a way that it does not contribute to national development, monetary and social sustainability. Tourism is a fundamental base for the economy, being that essential source that allows to generate employment, with it the growth and development of individuals and the sector, there are different representatives of society that directly affect such as the state, tourists and the industry, in order to promote these places, the co-responsibility of the aforementioned actors is needed. In relation to the confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is necessary to emphasize the importance of the intervention of a professional Social Worker to intervene directly in the multiple scenarios that Ecuadorian families experience. In the development of the investigative work is the mixed paradigm that allows us to obtain quantitative and qualitative data from primary sources that provide veracity and validity to the present project, on the other hand, the survey technique was applied through the questionnaire of questions that provides necessary information for the elaboration of the intervention plan, capturing activities that guide the approach of this problem The reason is to know the degree of participation of the social worker in the economic restructuring of the commercial and tourist sector of the Bajo Alto commune in the year 2020, through the execution of a social assistance scheme that improves the quality of life of the group of merchants of greater vulnerability, the methodology developed is of a non-experimental type, with a mixed approach under a descriptive-explanatory scope and the application of the inductive-deductive, historical-logical method to provide a viable solution to the problem evidenced. The most vulnerable group was identified, such as informal traders, since they present a level of extreme poverty, observed in the economic conditions they live in, they do not have sufficient resources to meet their basic needs, evidencing the consequences left by this problem. In the investigative work, the corresponding analysis was presented, which could be detected through the tabulations or statistical data, optimal important information for the elaboration of activities, the study ends with a sequence of suggestions that are addressed to the merchants of the commune, On the other hand, it is necessary to implement public policies that guide economic reactivation and adapt the conditions for the correct functioning of the commune that generates benefits and opportunities for merchants for a phase of economic recovery.