01918nas a2200169   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002100002000043700003300063700003600096245009200132856006200224300000900286490000700295520143200302022001401734       2020                            d1 aDoménica Noboa1 aChristian Quishpe Fernández1 aJazzmín Arrivillaga Henríquez00aCasas flotantes de “Babahoyo”: ¿potencial producto de turismo cultural en ecuador?  uhttps://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/extart?codigo=7581065  a1-250 v143 aThe construction technique and vernacular architecture related to the floating houses of Babahoyo, represent part of the intangible and historical heritage of Ecuador and the city of Babahoyo, but the associated settlements are characterized by having a high index of unsatisfied basic needs and local environmental problems that limit the tourist potential. The main axis of this work being the tourist assessment of the floating houses in the Babahoyo sector, as well as analyzing the local community and public and private actors as potential tourist actors. The methodology used is qualitative and semi-quantitative, where techniques for categorizing and ranking tourist attractions, community participation in socialization workshops and identification of tourism actors with matrices for stakeholder analysis (API) have been incorporated. The results show that houseboats are a hierarchy II tourist attraction, that they have the basic conditions and characteristics that allow them to motivate national tourist flows and consequently a possible community development. However, there are economic limitations on the part of the local community to invest in tourism activities, while there is a very weak socio-space of actors based on the inadequate link between the government, public, private and community sectors regarding the attractiveness of floating houses. Not currently constituting itself as a tourist product.  a1982-5838