Propuesta metodológica para valorar la calidad escénica de los paisajes del agua y su potencial como recurso turístico = Methodological proposal to evaluate the scenic quality of waterscapes and their potential as a touristic attraction

摘要

Waterscapes in coastal tourist destinations can reduce overcrowding and seasonality, which effecttourist destinations that focus on beaches as a tourism resource. Furthermore, tourism can justify theconservation of these landscapes, which is often forgotten by urban planners, thus forming a symbioticrelationship between tourism and conservation. To this end, it is necessary to evaluate and classify theattributes of waterscapes so that they can become a tourism resource. In this paper, a method to simultaneouslyevaluate the scenic quality and the potential as a tourism attraction is presented. Scenic qualityfocuses on a multisensory perspective, one that not only considers visualscape but also soundscape andsmellscape. To evaluate its tourist potential, the relevance, accessibility, equipment and long-term viabilitywere all taken into consideration. The method is applied and tested in three waterscapes of the Costa Brava (Girona, Spain). It proved to be reliable enough from an all-round point of view to be extrapolatedin other waterscapes