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    Creative tourism based on handicrafts in the municipality of Ráquira, Boyacá
    ALVELAYIS NIETO MEJIA; JORGE ALEXANDER MORA FORERO; Neapolis University Pafos
    This research allows to know the symbolic value and the representations that tourists give to the traditional utilitarian and artistic handicraft work in pottery and ceramics, to identify the criteria of inclusion and exclusion at the time of purchase in Ráquira Boyacá, considered as the handicraft capital of Colombia. The objective of this research is to identify the potential of creative tourism based on utilitarian and artistic crafts as a strategy for economic revitalization and cultural dissemination in the municipality of Ráquira Boyacá. In addition, it is based on the main categories which identifies having a support or information on a participatory scenario involving artisans, tourists, merchants and the community. Likewise, the type of research handled in this project is qualitative where the analysis is interpretative and reflexive. In this way, ethnographic interviews are carried out to obtain decisive information from the artisans in relation to the techniques, knowhow and traditional knowledge associated with their artisan work in which tourism contributes to the dissemination, valuation and conservation of artisan work, privileging the principles of sustainability, quality and responsibility of cultural and creative tourism. Therefore, as a result, relevant information from tourists who visit Ráquira was evidenced, with the purpose of knowing the symbolic value and the representations they give to artisan work. Equally important, concluding this research, there is a great potential to strengthen creative tourism products based on handicrafts in Ráquira
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    Representaciones sobre la memoria de la tragedia de Armero desde las prácticas turísticas
    JORGE ALEXANDER MORA FORERO; ALVELAYIS NIETO MEJIA; EDWIN BONELO MARTINEZ; EDITORIAL UNIAGUSTINIANA
    Este libro titulado Perspectivas turísticas: una discusión entre lo social y lo cultural es un análisis de buenas prácticas en las cuales un grupo de investigadores centraron su indagación para evidenciar la importancia de construir un ejercicio social enfoca-do a identificar las problemáticas que se establecen dentro de los territorios mediante diferentes contextos que ilustran al lector para el desarrollo de alternativas inclinadas a superar los marcados desequilibrios sociales que deben afrontar los profesionales del turismo en la actualidad.
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    Transformaciones de las dinámicas del turismo rural comunitario frente a los desafíos que implica la crisis de la pandemia. Caso Agroparque Los Soches
    ALVELAYIS NIETO MEJIA; JORGE ALEXANDER MORA FORERO; EDWIN BONELO MARTINEZ; EDITORIAL UNIAGUSTINIANA
    The purpose of this paper is to highlight the realities faced by the Agroparque Los Soches as a result of the crisis generated by the pandemic. The process of adapting their productive activities to the new reality imposed by the reduction of the tourism activity is highlighted. A theoretical approach to the pandemic in the context of rural community-based tourism and post-confinement tourism des-tination planning was carried out. The qualitative approach was used as a meth-odological horizon from an interpretative paradigm and the case study approach was the chosen method. The data collection technique was the semi-structured interview, and inductive content analysis was used to systematize the informa-tion. It is shown that in the face uncertainty and anguish generated by the pan-demic, there are some actions to design a new model of tourism management in their territories that meet the needs of travelers and the requirements of the in-dustry in order to revitalize tourism