Efecto económico de la actividad turística en la Provincia de Tungurahua, Ecuador

Edwin Javier Santamaría Freire and Fabián Mauricio Bayas Vásconez
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Edwin Javier Santamaría Freire: Facultad de Ciencias Administrativas. Universidad Técnica de Ambato. Ecuador.
Fabián Mauricio Bayas Vásconez: Facultad de Ciencias Administrativas. Universidad Técnica de Ambato. Ecuador.

Revista Ciencias Administrativas (CADM), IIA, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 2018, issue 11, No 3, 15-26

Abstract: This work tries to measure the tourism activity through the economic benefits; among the main ones are poverty reduction, job creation and income distribution. However, there is few data available at the local level; For which it has been raised under the quantitative approach and the method of analysis and synthesis, through a survey of the entrepreneurs dedicated to the tourism activity on income, economic dependents, seasonal variations, to be used under the income distribution of the Model of Lorenz Curve, complemented with the Coefficient of Gini. Whereof it was obtained that there is a better distribution of the income in the tourism sector of the Consolidated Zone of Tungurahua with a Gini coefficient of 0.403 lower than the coefficient of Ecuador. In addition, it was noted that annual revenues exceed $ 21 million. From this it is concluded that the tourism economic benefit produces distribution and equality among the inhabitants of a geographical area, because it allows the equalization of opportunities; It is indicated that boosting tourism as a source of employment, development and entrepreneurship will increase the standard of living of the inhabitants.

Keywords: Tourism; Economic benefit; Income distribution. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J11 Z31 Z32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.24215/23143738e016

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