Traditional IKAT Technique, as Tourist Intangible Heritage, in the communities of Bullcay and Bullzhún-Ecuador

Abstract

This research aims to promote the continuation of the use of the traditional Ikat technique to preserve the intangible tourist heritage of the Bullcay and Bullzhún communities. Types of research were applied: descriptive, exploratory, explanatory, correlational, and a non-type test. parametric with a reliability level of 90%, these methods allowed to detail and analyze the socio-productive-economic activities of these communities, this ancestral fossil record empowers to sustain cultural tourism as a logic of productive assimilation in relation to the management of territory and the sustainable development strategy. Through ancestral knowledge and its permanent dissemination, it will be possible to maintain, preserve and conserve these manifestations so that they can be transmitted to futuregenerations. The investigation concludes that the most representative ancestral weaving techniques of the Gualaceo Canton are the following: needle weaving, crochet and weaving techniques applied in waist weaving such as the Ikat technique.