Tourism territories in low density areas: The case of Naturtejo geopark in Portugal

George Ramos and João Luís Jesus Fernandes

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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) - 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.

Keywords: Low-density areas; tourism territories; geoparks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L83 M1 O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-12-14, Revised 2016-03-22
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Published in Journal of Tourism, Heritage & Services Marketing 1.2(2016): pp. 14-21

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