Diseño de producto turístico acuícola en la comuna Río Chico de la parroquia Manglaralto.

Abstract

Río Chico is a community belonging to the province of Santa Elena, is a very busy place for tourists who travel north on the route Spondylus, being this a busy place, it has become a commune in passing to reach tourist places such as Montañita, Olón, Puerto Lopez, Manta, among others. Because tourists are unaware of the location, the following project seeks to create an experiential aquatic tourism product. In addition, it seeks to create an added value to one of the flagship products exported by Ecuador which It is recognized worldwide for its excellent taste and production; the shrimp. This project considered various research on aquaculture in Ecuador, tourism in general and aquaculture tourism activities in other parts of the world. By means of the "tourist characterization of communities" form of the Manual for the Local Tourist Diagnostic (Ricaurte Quijano, 2009), We proceeded to analyses the conditions in which the commune Río Chico is located. An interview with an aquaculture engineer and surveys as methodological tools was also used to know if they were interested in this proposal, and with all the information collected was obtained the profile of the visitor and elements to be considered when designing the product of excursion of aquatic tourism in the commune Río Chico of the parish Manglaralto.