Região do Centro, a region of central Portugal located between Lisbon and Porto, known for its diverse landscapes including a mountainous interior with the Serra da Estrela and a rugged Atlantic coastline, a land known for its rich in history with cities like Coimbra serving as a former capital and home to Portugal’s oldest university, and Aveiro,renowned for its Art Deco buildings and suggestive waterways, as well as numerous castles, monasteries, and Roman ruins, also highlighted by coastal and inland attractions, from beaches and fishing villages to lush mountains and historic centres making it a hub of cultural and natural diversity launched a renewed platform version of its Sustainable Tourism Observatory.
The Sustainable Tourism Observatory of the region is a project of Turismo Centro de Portugal, developed in partnership with the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria / CiTUR - Centre for Research, Development and Innovation in Tourism, with the support of Centro 2030, and coordinated by Professor Francisco Dias.
The Sustainable Tourism Observatory of Central Portugal (OTSCP), now has a new version, providing more complete and improved information on tourism activity in the region.
The platform update also includes the English language, updated statistical data and new analysis and monitoring tools. presenting a renewed structure, with more content functionalities and updated indicators, reinforcing the role of the Observatory as an important decision - making in the tourism sector.
Among other main novelties of the new of version of the (OTSCP) available inhttp://smat.observatorio-tcp.pt,, is the creation of a space dedicated to the monitoring of cycling and pedestrian routes in the Região do Centro region.
This module includes an interactive panel with information on the behaviour of users on various routes, cross - referenced with also data from INE, the National Institute of Statistics which records overnight stays and average stay of visitors, and IPMA, the Portuguese Insitute of the Sea Atmosphere responsible to forecast temperature and precipitation, and the dashboard allows you to carry out searches and consult regular reports.
In addition the website also provides updated graphs of the evolution of statistical indicators for all municipalities and intermunicipal communities of the region, with series since 2015, as well as the Resident Satisfaction Assessment Reports and the first Annual Progress Report presented to UN Tourism, with the definition of indicators to be measured regularly in the Região do Centro.
The site also includes information about the international network of INSTO observatories, to which the OTSCP belongs, which reinforces the international dimension and global recognition of the project.
As a member of the INSTO network, an initiative created by UN Tourism to support the monitoring and evaluation of sustainable tourism in destinations around the world, the Sustainable Tourism Observatory of Central Portugal is committed to monitoring and measuring tourism activity and its impacts in eleven main thematic areas with their progress reported annually and they are :
• Local satisfaction.
• Employment.
• Governance.
• Seasonality.
• Economic benefits.
• Energy.
• Water.
• Wastewater management.
• Solid waste management.
• Accessibility.
• Climate action.
President of Turismo Centro de Portugal, Rui Ventura stated that this new version is an evolution of great importance, which puts knowledge at the service of all those who work and invest in tourism, adding that sustainability in the tourism sector begins with the ability to measure and understand the behaviours of visitors and the results of the activity, hence the Observatory is the mirror of this vision.
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