Blockchain Papers

Luis Ojeda

The objective of this research coffee growing and community tourism in the province of Loja-Ecuador was to develop a bibliographic review and documented research that determines the feasibility of applying community tourism in the coffee growing area of the province of Loja. To meet the objective, the snowball technique was applied based on the bibliographic and linkographic documentation found, the first thing was to collect and select information related to coffee production in the province of Loja and community tourism activities that include visits to coffee production farms. The selected information comes from official institutions at the national level such as the Ministry of Tourism (MINTUR), Associations of coffee growers in the province of Loja, independent producers, processors, and marketers to which it was applied. surveys and interviews, coffee exporters from the province of Loja, Tourism Observatory of the UTPL and the Decentralized Autonomous Government of Loja (GAD), in addition to what was already mentioned, 12 publications from scientific journals were selected. Among the main findings we have that: the experiences of community tourism in the province of Loja are recent, however, it represents an important alternative for a sustainable use of natural resources, the future of community tourism ventures combined with coffee production, for this, the organization processes of all the actors must be improved to achieve an improvement in the quality of life of the communities.

Ayoze Corujo, Carlos Fernández Esquer, José Rama

Spain is a country where the nationalist cleavage has a fundamental importance to understand the party systems and the dynamics of electoral competition in some Autonomous Communities. This article analyzes the electoral bases of the main regionalist parties in Spain and, specifically, it focuses on the electoral bases of Canary Coalition (CC). Despite its importance at the regional level, this party has received little attention by the academic literature. This article confirms the idea that CC is a party able to mobilize an electorate whose preferences are for a more decentralized territorial organization than the current one. However, the key finding is that, unlike what happens with the main regionalist parties in Spain, the identity associated with the Autonomous Community is not an explanatory factor of the vote for CC, what shows that the Canarian identity is not politically activated.