ANÁLISIS DEL NIVEL DE RESILIENCIA TURÍSTICA ANTE DESASTRES NATURALES: CASO DE MANABÍ, ECUADOR.

Abstract

In the last years Manabí has suffered several natural disasters, affecting socially and economically to the province, the earthquake happened last April 16, 2016 was the one that has caused more negative and which it has been recovering. This province is characterized by being one of the main tourist destinations of the country, a sector that has been directly affected by the natural disaster, in view of this and its location that poses as one of the seismic zones with the highest risk according to Ecuadorian Code of Construction, this research has as main objective to evaluate and analyze the agility and capacity of its recovery before this type of events and disasters, mainly in the tourist area. For the development of this research, a Resilience Scoreboard for Disaster Destinations was used, which was developed through interviews with four experts representing entities related to this topic, a study that allows concluding that certain areas of priority attention have been unprotected to face the consequences of natural events, in addition to that the province does not have a proposal at the level of National Government to promote the resilience