Abstract
The Algarve region, which socio-economy is mostly based on Sun and Sea tourism, may experience a decline due to the loss of beach area as a tourist resource because of sea level rise. As such, an adaptation pathway to enhance the regional resilience of Mediterranean regions such as the Algarve is necessary in a changing climate. Thereby, knowing that the sector diversification conduces to a regional resilience enhancement, a reduction in the Sun and Sea tourism suitability in the Algarve region could be compensated by a strategy of economic diversification, supported by sustainable touristic products, inherently contributing to increment regional resilience and to avoid the decline considering future degradations. Therefore, a paramount opportunity lies in finding nature-based, cultural, and creative tourism products to be promoted to ensure resilient long-term prosperity through economic diversification. This chapter aims to present strategic guidelines for tourism diversification for other tourism products for the Algarve region in a changing climate. Thus, a survey was applied to 400 tourists and to 400 residents, and a Delphi survey was conducted to 3 experts, 7 decision-makers, and 15 tour operators in order to assess which tourism pathways should be followed for the sustainable development of this region.
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This research is a part of the Ph.D. thesis of the first author, André Samora-Arvela. André Samora-Arvela contributions are the conceptualization, methodology, formal analysis, investigation, resources, data curation, writing the original draft preparation, reviewing, and editing the chapter. Patrícia Pinto, Thomas Panagopoulos, Eric Vaz, Jorge Ferreira, Helena Pina e Diogo Miguel Pinto contributed in reviewing and editing the chapter. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript. The authors thank the support given by the Social Science Institute (ICS) at the University of Lisbon, the Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences (CICS.NOVA), the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the New University of Lisbon, the Research Centre for Tourism, Sustainability and Well-being, Faculty of Economics (CinTurs) at the University of Algarve. The authors would also acknowledge the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the Toronto Metropolitan University (Canada); and finally, the Centre for Studies in Geography and Spatial Planning (CEGOT) from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Porto.
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Samora-Arvela, A. et al. (2024). Regional Resilience and Dependence on Tourism in a Changing Climate. In: Remoaldo, P., Lopes, H., Ribeiro, V., Alves, J. (eds) Tourism and Climate Change in the 21st Century. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59431-1_6
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