Educación Especializada en turismo a estudiantes de la Unidad Educativa Fiscal Margarita Cortes en Ecuador

Abstract

The tourism activity originates a varied labor market, which involves different professional competencies that must be developed to meet the labor demand. The study aimed to analyze the Specialized Education in Tourism, for the technical baccalaureate in sales services and tourist information of the Margarita Cortes Fiscal Educational Unit, province of Esmeraldas, Ecuador; training given from July 15 to September 27, 2019, 160 synchronous hours; analyze the curriculum; occupational field of the technical baccalaureate in sales services and tourist information; indicators in tourism of establishments and employed personnel according to tourist activity. Constructivist paradigm, methodology with qualitative approach, hermeneutic method, exploratory, based on the development of skills and abilities of the students, analysis of the documentary review, interview to teachers of the educational unit. As a result, 23 university students of the tourism career of the Technical University Luis Vargas Torres of Esmeraldas, trained 69 students of the first, second and third year of technical high school. It is concluded that the curriculum of the professional figures of the technical baccalaureate in sales services and tourist information requires updating, adapting it to the context of the labor demand of the province, with the proposal to make the Specialized Education in Tourism viable.