Teachers of the Tourism School participate in the International Congress in Bogotá

Narcisa Ullauri and Ronald Chaca, professors of the Tourism School of the UDA, presented at the International Tourism Congress held in Bogotá, Colombia, their project called "Migration north south, new global players in local tourism."

This congress takes place every two years in the "Universidad del Externado de Colombia" and only two papers are chosen for each country.

The investigation was developed in three parts. Chaca was in charge of the bibliographic part and the revision. Ullauri worked the polls and the writing. The investigation also counted on the cooperation of Natalia Rincon, Director of the School of Tourism, who was in charge of the quantitative aspect and the process of inserting the samples.

The idea was born when beginning to investigate the "new migrants" that have arrived in Cuenca and the different problems of approach or distancing that occurs between foreigners and natives.

How did the foreigners come to live here? What was the idea that they were sold from our city? How did you decide to move your habitual residence to a residence outside of your native country? These were some of the questions that were tried to answer.

For the field work, a delimitation of the place was made, that is, where the foreigners who move to the city are located. As a result of this, it was discovered that the area of ​​Calle Ordoñez Lazo is named, even by the migrants themselves, as "Gringolandia".

"In the School of Tourism of the University of Azuay is a true interrelation between knowledge and I think one of the most interesting aspects was that the paper merges experience and new visions of territory-development," says Ronald Chaca .

Thanks to this project has not been analyzed only how many migrants arrive in the city, but also other factors such as territory, development, mobility, migrations and imaginary that at the national level are not taken into account when defining what are the lines in which should work tourism.

"The idea is to position ourselves with new visions of what is developing and to create our own" footprint "in the different areas in which we work", concluded Narcisa Ullauri.