Estrategias de marketing digital y su impacto en el desarrollo turístico de la ciudad de Latacunga

Abstract

The main purpose of this research is to establish digital marketing strategies that contribute to the tourist development of the city of Latacunga, Cotopaxi Province; Because it is a city of high tourist concurrence, it is necessary and essential to apply digital marketing as a key point to boost tourism development and to cover the majority of domestic and foreign tourists entering the country. In order to develop this work it was necessary to identify the problems that focus on the inadequate digital marketing strategies and their impact on the tourist development of the city, which has caused a decrease in tourist revenues to the area; the determination of a theoretical framework that facilitated the best understanding of the subject; a methodology based on a qualitative and qualitative approach that allowed for a data collection and analysis that served to answer the research questions and check the previously established hypothesis, which resulted in accepting the hypothesis formulated: digital marketing strategies if they will improve the tourist development in the city of Latacunga; and finally the proposal that consisted in the design of digital marketing strategies that will provide a demonstration to the tourist development of the city of Latacunga through tourism promotion tools (website, fan pages, YouTube).