Industrial tourism: its potential in the destination Holguin, Cuba

ABSTRACT

An analysis of the potentiality of the heritage of the destination Holguin for industrial tourism is presented. The applied methodology was descriptive-qualitative research through analysis and synthesis, historical-logical study, induction-deduction, participant observation, and the interview applied to destination researchers, in order to inquire about the experiences in industrial tourism. Therefore, a tour was made of the most important elements of the industrial heritage in Europe and America and then entered that of Cuba and in particular one of its destinations Holguin, has singularities related with respect to tangible and intangible industrial heritage of great significance that trace a future in research on industrial tourism, an opportunity to develop tourism post-COVID-19 pandemic.