Sustainable Tourism Law

LOCAL DEVELOPMENTS OF THE WORLD SUMMIT ON SUSTAINABLE TOURISM 459 practices, based on three-dimensional (economic, environmental, social) elements, rights, duties, responsibilities and liabilities. CONCLUSIONS Conclusions of the investigation: a) WSST + 20 detailed an international normative set of suggestions, paths and strategies for local authorities and communities towards sustainable tourism development, based on principles of feedback, assessment, monitoring and control of changes, threats, risks and opportunities for the tourist destinations; b) Small rural municipalities with few inhabitants but a strong seasonal seaside tourist intensity and a dominant tourism product are very challenging “territorial laboratories” regarding the capacity of the local authorities to apply strategies for sustainable tourist development; c) The municipality of Aljezur, Algarve, Portugal, which is part of a National Park and Nature Reserve protected by state laws and subject to the competences of several central public environmental and maritime entities on seaside activities, is a case study that challenges the capacity of local authorities to intervene in the implementation of sustainable tourism development strategies; d) The research of the case study conceived a methodology of triangulation for economic, social and environmental perceptions regarding surf as the dominant tourism product in Aljezur, with the participation of the stakeholders and the goal of evaluating convergence indices in these dimensions, which will allow to draw effective strategies for sustainable local tourist development; e) The results of the perceptions allowed us to design a sustainable municipal management charter for the tourist product of surf in the territory of Aljezur. The charter is composed of principles, rules and practices for soft law that weigh equitably the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainability, as well as the long-term commitment, with short-term monitoring and control operations also taking place; f ) The municipal management charter is a local soft law regulatory document that, as a result of auditing, consultation and participatory democracy