Nautical tourism in the North Atlantic
The archipelago of the Azores only recently (late 20th century) began to select tourism as one of the levers for the development of the territory. Although nature tourism is the main tourist product, other products have been determined to complement the territory’s characteristics. Among them is nau...
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ftunivcoimbra:oai:estudogeral.uc.pt:10316/108018 2023-08-27T04:10:51+02:00 Nautical tourism in the North Atlantic Silveira, Luís Santos, Norberto Moreira, Claudete Oliveira Ferreira, Rui 2020-12 http://hdl.handle.net/10316/108018 https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1522-8.ch012 en eng IGI GLOBAL http://hdl.handle.net/10316/108018 doi:10.4018/978-1-7998-1522-8.ch012 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Nautical tourism info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart 2020 ftunivcoimbra https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1522-8.ch012 2023-08-09T00:02:01Z The archipelago of the Azores only recently (late 20th century) began to select tourism as one of the levers for the development of the territory. Although nature tourism is the main tourist product, other products have been determined to complement the territory’s characteristics. Among them is nautical tourism, specifically yacht tourism. This tourism segment generates multiple economic opportunities, directly and indirectly. In the Azores, development of nautical tourism centered on the expansion and construction of marinas, providing seven of the nine islands with at least one such structure. Construction of the new marinas did not decrease the number of yachts and crew using the old ones. In fact, these numbers increased in practically all marinas and islands. Most yachtsmen are European, and an average of almost four people per yacht visit the Azores between April and October. Book Part North Atlantic Universidade de Coimbra: Estudo Geral 204 222 |
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The archipelago of the Azores only recently (late 20th century) began to select tourism as one of the levers for the development of the territory. Although nature tourism is the main tourist product, other products have been determined to complement the territory’s characteristics. Among them is nautical tourism, specifically yacht tourism. This tourism segment generates multiple economic opportunities, directly and indirectly. In the Azores, development of nautical tourism centered on the expansion and construction of marinas, providing seven of the nine islands with at least one such structure. Construction of the new marinas did not decrease the number of yachts and crew using the old ones. In fact, these numbers increased in practically all marinas and islands. Most yachtsmen are European, and an average of almost four people per yacht visit the Azores between April and October. |
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Nautical tourism in the North Atlantic |
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