Sustainable Tourism Law

LOCAL DEVELOPMENTS OF THE WORLD SUMMIT ON SUSTAINABLE TOURISM 455 at the moment, in several beaches of the municipality, especially those most frequented by surfers. A total of 318 questionnaires were collected from swimmers and 321 questionnaires were collected from surfers. The research was conducted from May to September 2016 and the final report of the study, including the formulation of a sustainable municipal management charter for the surf tourism product, was delivered to the municipality of Aljezur in December 2016. III. ANALYSIS AND RESULTS As suggested by the literature, the municipality of Aljezur can adopt a strategy of sustainable tourism governance in its territory through the symbolic power of manifestos, letters and good practices recommended by global and international organizations, although adapted to the local context and reality. The findings reported here can provide a useful advantage when tailoring such a strategy. In fact, the positioning of a sustainable tourism offer in a territory depends on the creation of a favourable framework of perceptions by the public and private agents involved in its formulation and dissemination. The framework, control and monitoring of municipal tourism sustainability are based on indicators of environmental, economic and social convergence of the problems, attributes and actions to be undertaken in the various activities that constitute tourism, in particular, those predominant in the use of the territory. The indices of economic, environmental and social convergence between public and private entities included in the study carried out by the University of the Algarve, as well as the draft for the municipal sustainable charter of a surf tourism product identified as a “commitment charter”, are accessible on the Internet site of the municipality of Aljezur. It can be accessed in http://www. cm-aljezur.pt/pt/destaques/1579/estudo-do-produto-turistico-surf-no- municipio-de-aljezur.aspx. An English version is also accessible in https:// sapientia.ualg.pt/bitstream/10400.1/10148/1/Draft%20Proposal%20 Sustainable%20Municipal%20Surf%20Charter%20Aljezur.pdf thanks to the efforts of the research team of the Algarve University. A sustainable municipal management charter of the surf tourism product in the municipality of Aljezur has, therefore, been developed. It is a proposal for a declaration of the municipality of Aljezur’s commitment to develop a sustainable