Valutazione delle prospettive di sviluppo ecoturistico delle Riserva Naturale Regionale delle Valli Cupe
Author: Salvatore Bianco
Year: 2017
Abstract
In the field of protected areas, the Natural Reserves are destined to maintain their balanced ecosystems so the environment protection is the main goal. In the same way, ecotourism is a kind of ecologic tourism which does not disturb the environment. This thesis aims to evaluate the perspectives of an ecotourism development of Valli Cupe Natural Regional Reserve. To do so the starting point is about the protected areas to finally get to the concept of ecotourism which allows to draw advantages to the local communities from an economic point of view. Later on, the description of the area is outlined, along with its touristic flow, as well as the procedures which led to institute the Natural Reserve. Then the methodology phase is described through the A’WOT hybrid model which allows to determine the strategies by assessing the elements which compose the SWOT analysis. The results underline how the promotion of the natural resources is able to change the economic face of the local community, but at the same time they draw attention to the critic aspects and obstacles which may provoke impediments within the process of the development of the area. So the strategies to be adopted are based on the opinions of the stakeholders being interviewed that are the protagonists, along with the environment, of the hole Reserve framework.
Le Valli Cupe. Guida naturalistica ed escursionistica
Authors: Carmine Lupia, Raffaele Lupia
Editor: Rubbettino
Year: 2010
Abstract
“It’s not the preconception of the uncontaminated nature to guide the study and the work of these pages, but the relationship between land and men”. In these words the deepest meaning of this guide is kept. It is not meant to be only a cold and aseptic description of geographic places and naturalistic paths, but is mainly an attempt to bring out the intimate and fertile relationships which tie the territory to the human community that populate it.
Throughout this book the authors want to hold visitors hands and accompany them to the discovery of places full of fascination, history and culture where you can catch a glimpse of the close bond between the human element and the natural one. Such a bond represents the main feature of the rural world which makes it the depositary of an old system of knowledge to which the modern man can approach so as to relive the harmonies and the rhythms of nature…”