Parque Natural do Douro Internacional - arribes del Duero: orientações estratégicas
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Tourism is considered a phenomenon of the extreme importance in society’s structural
way of life. From the remote travels of pre-historical humans, until the end of the XVIII
century, when the first tourist flows took place, and afterwards during the first half of
the XX century, this phenomenon grew steadily gaining ever more socioeconomic
importance, especially for the regional development of Portugal’s border areas.
The confirmation of the economic and social advancement of certain regions based on
tourism activities, hand in hand with their rich heritage, has always left question marks
regarding the unequal degree of development verified in areas of similar or even
superior resources with the potential to bring about positive evolution for their
respective population or even integrated progress.
With this work we aim to evaluate and discuss tourism’s contribution towards regional
development, based on tourism and heritage potential of the Parque Natural do Douro
Internacional/Arribes del Duero. We will bring to the surface what we consider good
opportunities and potential for the development of these border regions, highlighting the
fact that the results of the dynamism applied to the Parque Natural do Douro
Internacional/Arribes del Duero, amount to capital gains for the global betterment that
any political policies may try to achieve for this region.
