Tourist economy in Villeta

Abstract

The article on tourism economy in Villeta is the result of the investigation of a macroproject of tourism developed between the years 2016 and 2018 by the university of Cundinamarca with which it was tried to know the tourist characterization of the department. Villeta has been characterized as being the capital city of the department and being a tourist city because of its warm climate which benefits its merchants that offer different attractions to its visitors and tourists, the time for the high production panelera has been called the sweet city where has sought to create the route of panela so that visitors can visit panela farms, crops and production mills and in this way teach the importance of this resource. Villeta is a strategically located city that can be reached from Bogotá on 13 street and 80 street, from the north on the via Honda, Guaduas and although previously it was very visited for its gastronomic variety, nowadays it is known for its tourist attractions, its festivals, which is ideal for spending weekends and holidays. This population has been having a rapid urban growth that has changed the local economic aspects where the inhabitants that previously depended on agriculture, nowadays depend mainly on the trade generated by tourism, another aspect observed in the population is that people are moving from the farms looking for a better job.