PASOS Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural (Apr 2011)

Proyecto de agroturismo en la comarca de Terra de Lemos (Galicia)

  • Xavier Simón,
  • Carmen Gil Pereiras,
  • Pablo Carpintero

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 2
pp. 353 – 365

Abstract

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The Project for the Recovery of Galician Intangible Cultural Heritage known as Ronsel Project intends to promote the reassesment and conservation of Galician Intangible Cultural Heritage or Patrimonio cultural inmaterial (PCI). The richness and complexity of heritage derived from a greatvariety of cultural and social expressions calls for the establishment of a wide action plan that proves capable of achieving the following basic goals: identification, documentation, research, protection, promotion, transmission and socialization of Intangible Cultural Heritage. The Ronsel Project, departs from the principle that it is possible to identify strategies of economic development based on the traditional knowledge and practices that allow for innovative ways of administering, thus contributing to guarantee the sustainable growth of the community and the conservation of its natural and socialenvironment. The following article presents the activities financed by the INCITE program, thus offering a first assessment on designing tourism products based on intangible cultural heritage.

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