Touristic Valuation of the Morraceira Island (Figueira da Foz): new usages of the endogenous potential in the Mondego Estuary

Authors

  • A. M. Rochette Cordeiro Departamento de Geografia e Centro de Estudos de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território (CEGOT). Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra
  • Liliana Catarina Paredes Bolseira de Investigação. Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/0871-1623_32_20

Keywords:

Natural Resources, Salt Making Industry, Ecotourism, Sustainable Tourism, Mondego´s estuary

Abstract

In the municipal territory of the Figueira da Foz, the exceptional wealth of the natural resources, associated to the extensive shoreline, the estuary, the lagoons between the dunes and the water courses, brought up the need to make a strategic plan for the implementation and development of sustainable tourist activities, which will bring up a alternative to “the classic” sun/sea tourism. The “Touristic Valuation Plan of the Morraceira Island” main goal was to implement a mild and integrated strategy that respects the intrinsic environmental values, promoting the visitors’ ecological education, as well as the spreading of the main local culture and of the salt making and birdwatching.

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Published

2013-09-01

Issue

No. 32 (2013): Cadernos de Geografia n. 32

Section

Outros

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