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Border regions are currently an important research topic, mainly in
regard to regional sciences (Makkonen and Williams, 2016), especially in
Europe and North America (Yang, 2006). With emphasis on topics such as
cooperation, regional economic development, governance and tourism
(Makkonen and Williams, 2016), these topics turn them into territories of
great significance.
In order to reinforce the joint interventions of the Member States in
integrated territorial development actions, together with the EU strategic
priorities, European Territorial Cooperation (ETC) covers a set of actions
aimed at promoting and favouring a balanced integration of the European
Union territory. This includes cooperation between its different areas on
issues of Community importance at cross-border level (cross-border
cooperation, to eliminate borders), transnational level (transnational
cooperation, experience sharing and good practices) and interregional
level (interregional cooperation, for networking in the region). Crossborder cooperation is strategic and decisive for the sustainability and
development of tourist destinations located in border regions. Trillo and
Lois (2011) point out that cross-border cooperation is an innovating issue
that has led to the reflection and understanding of the border under
different perspectives since the 1970s. For Beritelli (2011), cooperative
behaviour in tourist destination communities is a condition for their
sustainable planning and development as a tourist destination, although the results are not always satisfactory. For this cooperation to be
advantageous, it is essential that, in terms of tourism, it involves the
diversity that complements two neighbouring regions, by perceiving the
continuity of the territories that characterize, for example, the dry line of
the Galicia-North Portugal Euroregion. The cooperation of Northern
Portugal with the Autonomous Community of Galicia has been greatly
increased, partly due to their shared linguistic ties and geographical
proximity. The two regions have a natural and historical heritage with
significant tourism potential and can complement each other. For Oliveras
et al. (2010) and Datar (2011), cited by Trillo et al. (2015), the so-called
Euroregions have proliferated on the European continent. According to
them, there are no internal borders within the European Union that do not
have some type of cooperation structure. Trillo and Lois (2011) also point
out that although borders tend to disappear and facilitate relations between
different territories, at the same time, many relationships develop precisely
because of the persistence of differences (economic, administrative and
legal). These differences are derived from the very existence of the
borders, which allows us to approach deterritorialization or reterritorialization
processes, due to the emergence of cross-border regions in the periphery of
the nation. This can be explained by the presence of the borders, sharing
importance with other territories, without ignoring the historical and
political context, and observing a transformation in the role of borders and
the integration of history into territorialities that are redefined. Thus, this
region cannot be understood without borders being a basic motive of
attraction and cooperation.
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