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The increase in demand at the Peneda-Gerês National Park (PNPG), the first protected area created and
the only national park in Portugal, demonstrates the growing interest in nature and adventure tourism,
both national and international, also confirming current trends in today´s society. However, this research
implies the definition of strategies that aim at the protection, conservation and sustainability of the
territory, within the scope of tourism development. In this article, a qualitative analysis was carried out
based on semi-structured interviews with two managers from two key entities of the territory, focusing on
tourism supply and demand in the region, in order to understand what has already been implemented,
what is in development and which are aimed at addressing the urgencies observed in the territory. According to the interviewees, there are problems related to the massification of tourism in the region and
the seasonality of tourism demand, caused in a way by the lack of information about the park, both from
an internal point of view (human resources training) as external (provision of necessary information for
tourists). Also highlighted were the weak infrastructures and the difficult accesses, as well as the lack of
investment and entrepreneurship in the PNPG. For those reasons, strategic actions must continue to be
implemented, and new strategies must be developed in order to boost economic development of the
territory and to offer quality, safe, diversified and sustainable tourism.
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Nature tourism Cooperation Conservation Northern Portugal National Park