Local Tourist Guide

The training course as a Local Tourist Guide is designed to provide professionals with the necessary tools and techniques that facilitate interaction between local inhabitants and their environment through innovative tourist animation techniques that are linked to the territory. In other words, the local guide will be able to interpret their territory, from a political, economic, cultural and environmental context, creating spaces for meetings and dialogues of knowledge. In this context, the local guide will be in charge of disseminating their tourist heritage, with standards of respect, responsibility and sustainability that contribute in a systemic way to the territorial well-being. 

Objective

• Develop a training proposal aimed at creating and strengthening the capacities of local guides, as a strategy that contributes to the reactivation of tourism in rural territories.

Specific objectives

• Integrate a systemic territorial approach that supports the tourist activities of the actors related to their interpretation.
• Know and apply interpretation techniques of natural and cultural heritage, for the promotion of territorial identity, among other tools.
• Manage programs and tourist routes, for the diversification of the local tourist offer.
• Propose new sustainable tourism initiatives that articulate with local development strategies.

Methodology  

The course will be taught under the virtual face-to-face modality, for which asynchronous virtual phases will be combined with synchronous virtual ones, in addition to the autonomous work that must be carried out by teams. Academic evaluations will seek to connect with base readings prepared by each teacher, which will be connected with a space for analysis and evaluation (discussion forums or related tasks, among others). Synchronous classes will be facilitated by combining a series of methodologies that include lectures, readings to be discussed in class, case analysis, practical teamwork, among other resources that favor the generation of knowledge. In addition, each module considers an autonomous work phase which will be used for the development of individual or team work. It is pertinent to mention that throughout the phases there will be an accompaniment of each teacher in its various modalities (asynchronous, synchronous and face-to-face).

Finally, field work has been stipulated in the territory (under biosecurity measures and in open learning spaces) that allow the content to be articulated with various active tourist strategies. Finally, a face-to-face phase assigned to the practices on guidance is planned, which will seek to integrate three strategic factors, understanding of the territory and its prospective tourism management, systemic relationship with territorial development and the articulation of tourism activity, all these factors will be structured. from the practices of the formation of tourist guides.

Total 516 hours

138 synchronous hours

234 asynchronous hours

144 hours of autonomous work

Didactic unit I: Tourism planning and management of the territory

Didactic unit II: The tourism system and its institutional framework for Ecuador

Didactic unit III: Computer tools applied to the formulation of tourism strategies

Didactic unit IV: Tourist interpretation of the natural heritage (workshop on site)

Didactic unit V: Tourist interpretation of cultural heritage (on-site workshop)

Once the activities and requirements for the development of the course have been fulfilled, the participants will receive the certificate of "Local Tourist Guide", based on the provisions of the Regulations of the Department of Continuing Education, that is, that the participant obtains a minimum of 70%. in academic evaluation and 80% attendance at synchronous sessions, in each module and 100% of face-to-face workshops in the territory (Limón Indanza).

Professionals in the area of ​​tourism, marketing, hospitality and hotels; consultants in the field of tourism, high school graduates, university students and related postgraduates; and the general public interested in the subject.

Mgt. Natalia Rincon del Valle

mgt. Narcisa Ullauri Donoso

Mgt. Byron alvarado vanegas

PhD. Karina Farfan Pacheco

Mgt. Paul Bravo Lopez

mgt. Ronal Chaca Espinoza

Bio. Fredy Nugra Salazar

mgt. Juan Manuel Aguilar Ullauri

mgt. Jorge Amaya Ruiz

Single value $ 500,00

All debit and credit cards are accepted.

General Public $ 500,00 Code 1290

Personal GAD Limón Indanza $ 200,00 Code 1291

Personal UDA $ 500,00 Code 1287

Teaching and Administrative Staff, once you check the box "Payment role discount" when registering online, the automatic discount to the payment role will be made, $ 100,00 per month as of July 2021.

UDA students, $ 500,00 will be deducted from the second tuition of the March-July 2021 cycle.

Virtual platform of the University of Azuay

formacion.continua@uazuay.edu.ec