POLICIES, INSTRUMENTS AND ACTORS IN LOCAL DEVELOPMENT: NEW STRATEGIES OF TOURISM TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE INLAND OF CATALONIA

Francesc López-Palomeque y Francisco García Pascual, University of Barcelona-University of Lleida, Spain

In the processes of development of the tourism, diverse actors take part emphasizing the public administration for direct involvement and also for work in regulating and coordinating the participation of social actors. In the European context, tourism is use as a dynamization factor in territorial development policies (local, district, regional), particularly those areas less favoured (rural areas, which coincide with territories within countries, mountain areas or industrial spaces traditional crisis). The objectives and means of territorial development policies and, in particular, tourist planning had changed to suit the new realities and needs. This communication explains the new strategies for territorial promotion of tourism in the inland Catalan, which forms part of the new tourism policy of the administration autonomic (Government of Catalonia). In particular, it examines the substitution plans excellence and dynamism tourist plans for tourism development and other initiatives. New strategies, which promotes tourism interior, are a responding to the demands of the general context of change and tourist transition, and are also a response to the challenges of regional scenario: the territorial balance of tourism and higher skills and competitiveness of the tourism system.