Sustainable Tourism Law

GLOBAL CODE OF ETHICS FOR TOURISM AND CHARTER 447 GLOBAL C DE OF ETHICS AND CHA TER FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM • The touristic development has created a new kind of gentrification, which is being studied on its different modalities and which is, clearly, an issue of sustainability for tourism, because it directly affects the quality of life and social equity of the indigenous populations and, consequently, the sustainability of the touristic territory; • Studies show how, in Portugal, an increase of the rents and selling prices of houses on rental zones with high demand for touristic houses and how this behaviour was sensible to law changes in order to ease the access to this activity; • Both the international and the analysed national laws assign to the States the task of, together with the other stakeholders, taking actions in order to guarantee the sustainability of the touristic destinations, regarding the Right to housing; • These actions imply a wider control by the touristic governmental agencies and municipalities of some touristic activities such as the house rentals, the inclusion and regulation of these activities on specific territories, through the planning instruments, namely at the detailed zoning plan level, in order to adapt the relationship between the housing and the commercial activity of touristic house rental to each specific territory; • The inclusion of scientific touristic instruments, usually dedicated to environmental issues on the territorial plans of cities and specific areas or neighbourhoods, such as determining the social carrying capacity or situations where touristic saturation can be declared, in order to protect the inhabitants of the affected areas.