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Urban and Territorial Planning and Tourism

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 4920

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Òscar Saladié

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Department of Geography. Research Group on Territorial Analysis and Tourism Studies. Dow/URV Chair of Sustainable Development. Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Carrer de Joanot Martorell, s/n, 43480 Vila-seca, Spain
Interests: Territorial planning; tourism; sustainable mobility
Dr. Aaron Gutiérrez

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Department of Geography. Research Group on Territorial Analysis and Tourism Studies. Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Carrer de Joanot Martorell, s/n, 43480 Vila-seca, Spain
Interests: Urban studies; sustainable mobility; tourism

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Tourism is one of the most important economic sectors: 10% of world GDP and one of each ten jobs. According to UNWTO, international tourist arrivals grew by 7% in 2017 and international tourism generated US$ 1.6 trillion in export earnings. Nevertheless, tourism activities have an environmental footprint: changes in land uses, natural resources consumption, solid waste generation and air pollution, contributing to climate change. At the same time, tourism activities can amplify social differences between population of the same country or city, inducing to the gentrification in some neighbourhoods.

Tourism activity should contribute to achieve a more sustainable development and, therefore, it should be included in urban and territorial planning. This implies, according to UNHABITAT, a decision-making process aimed at realizing economic, social, cultural and environmental goals through the development of spatial visions, strategies and plans and the application of a set of policy principles, tools, institutional and participatory mechanisms and regulatory procedures.

The Special Issue will comprise a selection of papers addressing how tourism sector has been incorporated in urban and territorial planning or whether it has not been taking into account, and their results. Cases of studies are also welcome as well as comparing different examples.

The following themes would be of particular interest (the list is not exhaustive):

  • Tourism planning and sustainable development
  • Sustainable tourism policy and practice
  • Integration of tourism in urban and territorial planning
  • Case studies in tourism planning and development
  • Tourism and urban planning
  • Tourism and regional planning
  • Tourism cities and regions, challenges for planning and sustainable development
  • Tourism in protected areas
  • Tourism and local development
  • Tourism and socio-economic development

Dr. Òscar Saladié
Dr. Aaron Gutiérrez
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Tourism planning
  • Sustainable tourism
  • Urban and territorial planning
  • Local development
  • Tourism cities and regions

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Planning Tourism in Protected Natural Areas: Safety, Soft Law and Conflict Management between Beach Users. The Case of Surf in Aljezur, Portugal
by Virgílio Machado, Joaquim Pinto Contreiras and Ana Patrícia Duarte
Sustainability 2021, 13(19), 10739; https://doi.org/10.3390/su131910739 - 27 Sep 2021
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The intensification of tourism in coastal areas can increase planning problems, with potential conflicts amongst beach users affecting their safety perceptions and, ultimately, their tourist experience. Therefore, this constitutes an important concern for local authorities. The present study was conducted on an environmentally [...] Read more.
The intensification of tourism in coastal areas can increase planning problems, with potential conflicts amongst beach users affecting their safety perceptions and, ultimately, their tourist experience. Therefore, this constitutes an important concern for local authorities. The present study was conducted on an environmentally sensitive tourism destination located in a protected natural area in the Algarve, Portugal, with a quite significant level of surf tourism activities-the Aljezur municipality. In total, 245 surfers and 282 bathers were surveyed as these beach user groups have been observed to have a potential for intergroup conflict. Data were collected regarding their perceptions of personal safety, conflicts between beach users, and conflict management strategies. The respondents were also surveyed regarding how local authorities can provide strategies of soft law for a more sustainable management of surfing tourism. The findings revealed a consensus about the safety of Aljezur beaches and existence of perceived low conflict levels amongst beach users. The strategies more valued by respondents to promote surfing tourism development in the territory include the preservation of the natural resources and the developed of local regulation. Overall, these findings can be useful to the sustainable management of the surfing tourism in the territory. Full article
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Challenge for Planning by Using Cluster Methodology: The Case Study of the Algarve Region
by David Bienvenido-Huertas, Fátima Farinha, Miguel José Oliveira, Elisa M. J. Silva and Rui Lança
Sustainability 2020, 12(4), 1536; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12041536 - 18 Feb 2020
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This study analyses the most appropriate methodology to make similarity classifications among the cities of the Algarve (Portugal) according to 105 sustainability indicators monitored with the Observatory of Sustainability of the Algarve Region for Tourism (OBSERVE). The methodology used to establish the similarities [...] Read more.
This study analyses the most appropriate methodology to make similarity classifications among the cities of the Algarve (Portugal) according to 105 sustainability indicators monitored with the Observatory of Sustainability of the Algarve Region for Tourism (OBSERVE). The methodology used to establish the similarities was the cluster analysis with 4 different approaches which reduced the dimensions of the data set: total approach, pillar approach, subject area approach, and indicator approach. By combining the approaches, a total of 620 different cluster analyses were performed. The results reflected that the data analysis approaches with less dimensions were those that performed the best groups among cities. In this sense, the approaches with a high number of indicators (e.g., the total or the pillar approach) were characterised by misclassifying cities in more than 30% of the indicators. Thus, the most acceptable cluster analysis approach was that with a low number of indicators. Through this approach, it was possible to make correct groups of the sustainability level of the cities of the Algarve. These results provided an appropriate methodology for the decision-making regarding the sustainability of a region and could be extrapolated to other regions to assess sustainability or environmental indicators. Full article
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