Proposal for functional tourist use for Quinta Santa Barbara

Abstract

Cuban tourism, from the national development plan, includes among its objectives to promote destinations that contain attractive, authentic and representative elements of Cuban culture. One of these spaces is the "Quinta Santa Bárbara", current headquarters of the New Latin American Cinema Foundation, which requires an inventory of natural, socioeconomic and cultural resources, with which it interacts in the territory. The aforementioned situation supported the general objective of this research: to design a proposal for a sustainable tourist functional use for the "Quinta Santa Bárbara". For its compliance, the conditions of said space were first diagnosed, taking into account the infrastructures, tourist services, support services, technical networks, accessibility conditions and necessary human resources. Potential resources were also identified and evaluated, determining their limitations and strengths. Theoretical methods such as the historical-logical, the hypothetical deductive were used during the investigation; and empirical, such as the survey. The final result of the proposal contains the tourist resources of the area and the modalities and activities in which they can be used; as well as the indications, requirements and measures for its implementation, from a sustainable approach.