Ciclo Ruta Turística para las Parroquias Malacatos y El Tambo de los Cantones Loja y Catamayo de la Provincia de Loja

Nowadays, Ecuador, besides being a country recognized for its biodiverse richness, it has been able to show the development of tourist activity, which has allowed different modalities to be deployed, such is the case of a type of tourism that is in accordance with preferences such as nature, outdoor activities, that manifest in a healthy way, this is where the main axis of this work lies, whose purpose is to rescue the importance of both cultural and natural attractions, and promote a new lifestyle by making use of sustainable transport such as the bicycle, and generate a new alternative of tourism. Within the Province and the Loja Canton is the Rural Parish Malacatos and within the Catamayo Canton, the Rural Parish El Tambo, the two parishes have the potential for the development of tourism, for this reason, the setting objectives was made for the development of this research; The general objective: to design the tourist route cycle for the Malacatos and Tambo parishes of the Loja and Catamayo cantons of the province of Loja, and as specific objectives , to make the tourist diagnosis of the Malacatos and El Tambo parishes of the Loja and Catamayo cantons of the Province of Loja, that was made possible by using the Carla Ricaurte Matrix for local tourism diagnosis, also it was used the inventory tabs of tourist attractions of the Ministry of Tourism, after which the FODA analysis was made thanks to the help of interviews carried out in the parishes, in order to determine its components; the second objective, Elaborate the proposal of the cycle tourist route for the parishes Malacatos and the Tambo of the Loja Cantons and Catamayo of the Province of Loja, in which GPS was used for the lifting of the cycle route, which houses the attractions, activities to be carried out in each of these points, the services, means of transportation that include this proposal, time and duration of the route, in addition the promotion strategies of the cycle route were 5 determined. And finally Socialize the results obtained from the research work on the cycle route of the Malacatos and El Tambo parishes of the Loja and Catamayo districts of the Province of Loja, the MARPP technique was used, which consisted in the realization of an official agenda for the socialization, call, registration forms, sheets of recommendations for our work, and an agenda of activities to carry out during our intervention. It can be determined that the tourist route cycle seeks to integrate the tourist attractions of the two parishes, and generate the development of tourism activity that leaves satisfactory results in the communities, in addition to recommending the Ministry of tourism, to put more interest in this type of proposals that serve the development of communities, the same that generate benefits and a new alternative employment. It can be determined that the tourist cycle route seeks to integrate the tourist attractions of the two parishes, and generate the development of tourism, the same that leaves satisfactory results in the communities, in addition to recommending the Ministry of Tourism, to put more interest in this type of proposals that serve for the development of the communities, the same ones that generate benefits and a new alternative of employment.