Propuesta metodológica para valorar la calidad escénica de los paisajes del agua y su potencial como recurso turístico = Methodological proposal to evaluate the scenic quality of waterscapes and their potential as a touristic attraction
Full Text
Share
Waterscapes in coastal tourist destinations can reduce overcrowding and seasonality, which effect
tourist destinations that focus on beaches as a tourism resource. Furthermore, tourism can justify the
conservation of these landscapes, which is often forgotten by urban planners, thus forming a symbiotic
relationship between tourism and conservation. To this end, it is necessary to evaluate and classify the
attributes of waterscapes so that they can become a tourism resource. In this paper, a method to simultaneously
evaluate the scenic quality and the potential as a tourism attraction is presented. Scenic quality
focuses on a multisensory perspective, one that not only considers visualscape but also soundscape and
smellscape. To evaluate its tourist potential, the relevance, accessibility, equipment and long-term viability
were all taken into consideration. The method is applied and tested in three waterscapes of the Costa Brava (Girona, Spain). It proved to be reliable enough from an all-round point of view to be extrapolated
in other waterscapes