Diseño de un circuito turístico para la parroquia Lloa, cantón Quito, provincia de Pichicha.

Abstract

The present research aimed to design a tourist circuit for Lloa Village, Quito Canton, Pichincha Province. For its development, interviews were applied, review Bibliographic and field trips to tourist attractions in order to register objects, places, events, phenomena, and other elements of tourist interest, once the tourist attractions record was made within the area study through ArcMap computer programs. On the other hand, the tourist attractions identified within the study area are proceeded to form sets or zones, where for each identified area an analysis of percentage permanence according to its category, connectivity, and geographical proximity was performed, due to determine the modality and tourist activity. Taking into account the roads of Connectivity to tourist attractions, the shape of the tourist circuit was identified, and the Total distance from it. Determining that according to its connection pathways the circuit crosses 4 villages, it has a distance of 30 km and its shape is semicircular, where 29 attractions were recorded tourist, 18 (62%) are natural category and 11 (38%) are of cultural category, and according to their identified areas taking a maximum distance of 3 km between tourist attractions identified 5 areas, determining that 1, 2, 3, 4 zone in a 66% are suitable for adventure tourism, and in zone , 34% is suitable for cultural tourism, mentioning that the village is located in a site with high tourist potential, so it is recommended to develop a technical planning for the conservation and care of its resources