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Tourism territories in low density areas: The case of Naturtejo geopark in Portugal
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Abstract This paper aims to supply some elements regarding tourism territories' building in low density areas, and to corroborate the creation of a specific tourism territory (the Naturtejo Geopark) by the role carried out by a new territorial actor - Naturtejo, EIM (a Portuguese geopark's management firm) -... view more
This paper aims to supply some elements regarding tourism territories' building in low density areas, and to corroborate the creation of a specific tourism territory (the Naturtejo Geopark) by the role carried out by a new territorial actor - Naturtejo, EIM (a Portuguese geopark's management firm) - allowing tourism activities within a territorial scope different from the traditional territorial units' partition. The methodology applied is based on literature review and a specific case study used to show the creation of a new tourism territory. The results achieved suggest that concerted action in this new tourism territory has been producing positive effects from the supply-side point of view.... view less
Keywords
Portugal; tourism; nature park; national park; management
Classification
Leisure Research
Free Keywords
low-density areas; tourism territories; geoparks
Document language
English
Publication Year
2016
Page/Pages
p. 14-21
Journal
Journal of Tourism, Heritage & Services Marketing, 2 (2016) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.376330
ISSN
2529-1947
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0