Chonta party and its impact on community tourism of shuar people

Abstract

The Amazon is an eminently exploitable tourist source, where its potential and exuberant nature with endemic flora and fauna presents attractive places of primary forest as well as its rivers, lakes, waterfalls, caverns and to its town of the ethnic group Shuar that inhabit with ancestral customs and among them we highlight the Chonta Festival celebrated as part of their culture, so in the province of Morona Santiago there are these events carried out by men and women of this ethnic group to which it is desired to give the value that an ancient people deserves with the Promotion of the Festival of the Chonta and its ancestral rites as an attractive product in the Community Tourism. In order to achieve the objectives of the research, a survey was carried out to the community of San Luis de Ininkis, traditional Shuar village, to carry out this event, as results of local and national impact assessments leave a space for development entities and local governments to support the transformation of community tourism.