Hotel Turista is on Ibarra, in Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, a city in the transition zone between the Andes and Ecuador's coastal lowlands. The city takes its name from the indigenous Tsáchila people, known for their traditional body paint and hair dyed red with achiote.
Santo Domingo functions as a major road hub between Quito, the Pacific coast and the Amazon region, with a humid, tropical climate typical of the lowlands.