Evaluación del acceso a servicios turísticos para personas con movilidad reducida en la Isla de Santa Cruz, provincia de Galápagos.

Abstract

The province of Galápagos is one of the twenty-four provinces that make up Ecuador. It has a great variety of flora and fauna, which has served to be recognized and quoted as a tourist place worldwide. Likewise there is a great diversity of services so that the national and foreign tourists, who enter daily, can make use of to cross the archipelago and to discover the unique landscape that are located in the islands, this is how the Island of Santa Cruz is the most Demand by the tourists, because in the same it concentrates the greater quantity of tourist places of the province of Galápago s; Important part is also due to the fact that in the canton of Balta the airport is located, which is the gateway for tourists arriving from the mainland to enter the islands. However, in spite of the diversity and quantity of services that is located in the Island of Santa Cruz, the one that corresponds to accessible tourism, until the present date, has not been developed, which causes that the people that own some type of Disability, especially motor type, can’t access the different services that are offered. For that, the main services, such as the hotel, transport and food, as well as the main tourist places of the island, were reviewed, which allows to know all the establishments of these services and how many of them have the Infrastructure needed to receive people with mobility -type disabilities. On the other hand, a survey was carried out on people with motor-type disability who were at the moment in the territory that includes the Island of Santa Cruz, in order to know the perception that they have regarding the accessibility of the services. That is why the present work is based on the analysis that people with motor type disability are currently going through to access the various tourist services offered on the Island of Santa Cruz, Galapagos pro vince.