The Andean Agave as a diversifier of the tourist offer in the Metropolitan District of Quito
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Tourist activities in the Equinoctial Valley of the Metropolitan District of Quito receive the largest number of tourists who come to the city, this is largely due to its location: La Mitad del Mundo. Diversifying your tourism offer will allow you to respond to the needs of a tourism market that requires experiences related to sustainable tourism and that does not involve local actors in the process. The research establishes the relationship between these aspects and the incipient gastronomic tourism that exists in the Equinoctial Valley around the Andean agave. The trends linked to a better diet and the search to strengthen a local identity that can face globalization have found a niche in the Andean agave as a tourist resource with great potential for Quito. Due to the particularities of the phenomenon to be studied, this research is exploratory, it uses tools of the qualitative methodology, which allows identifying the particularities of the territory and proposing a gastronomic tourist profile that responds to the issues raised around the agave.
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