Plenary Session 2: Responsible Tourism and Sustainable Territories
Overtourism is now perceived as a restriction on the quality of life of resident populations and an overload on resources. However, stakeholders involved in the tourism offer and even local residents defend responsible tourism, as it is possible to combine environmental sustainability with economic sustainability.
As tourism is one of the main economic activities, which tend to be clean and profitable, it is worth thinking about its practices as a way for local development and entrepreneurship, allowing to rehabilitate historic centers, to plan the city, to value the rural world, to recover vacant spaces and degraded territories.
Tourism presents itself as an appropriate way, especially with the “New Tourist” mentality, to understand the Other, to perceive local communities and to interact responsibly with tourism people and actors and users from the various territories visited.
Overtourism is now perceived as a restriction on the quality of life of resident populations and an overload on resources. However, stakeholders involved in the tourism offer and even local residents defend responsible tourism, as it is possible to combine environmental sustainability with economic sustainability.
As tourism is one of the main economic activities, which tend to be clean and profitable, it is worth thinking about its practices as a way for local development and entrepreneurship, allowing to rehabilitate historic centers, to plan the city, to value the rural world, to recover vacant spaces and degraded territories.
Tourism presents itself as an appropriate way, especially with the “New Tourist” mentality, to understand the Other, to perceive local communities and to interact responsibly with tourism people and actors and users from the various territories visited.
MODERATOR:
Carlos Ferreira
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra
GUEST SPEAKERS:
Xosé Santos Solla
Faculdade de Geografia e História da Universidade de Santiago Compostela
Fernanda Cravidão
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra
Telma Gonçalves
Turismo de Portugal
Carlos Ferreira
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra
GUEST SPEAKERS:
Xosé Santos Solla
Faculdade de Geografia e História da Universidade de Santiago Compostela
Fernanda Cravidão
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra
Telma Gonçalves
Turismo de Portugal
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Sustainable Development Goals
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8.9. By 2030, devise and implement policies to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products
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11.4. Strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage
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12.10. Develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts for sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products
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