Natural Turism

Natural or Green Tourism are trips aimed at recreational activities in contact with nature and the cultural activities that this entails, such as getting to know, enjoying and participating in the conservation of natural and cultural resources. This type of tourism goes hand in hand with sports tourism, like climbing, hiking, cycling, skydiving, parachuting…

Andalucia has 21 Natural Parks, like the Natural Park of Cabo de Gata-Nijar or Estrecho´s Natural Park, and 3 National Parks, which are Sierra Nevada, Dona and Sierra de las Nieves.

Andalucia is perfect for all these activities. We also have a variety of different types of landscapes; desert, inlands such as mountains, plains and valleys, coast, jungle and caves.

· This sector in in continuos increase

· All these areas are protected

·There is greater social awareness of resources and their sustainability.

· Involvement of public administrations in the field of environmental management, planning and quality assurance.

Advantages, disadvantages and trends

Advantages

Because of the situation we face with COVID, one advantage for nature tourists is the ease of maintaining safe distances and do not have the same problems as the rest of the sector, such as fearing a lack of customers or capacity constraints.

Disadvantages

Because of the pollution, many animals migrate, so the natural space loses its essence.

The soil is contaminated due to hikers

Another type of contamination is the bonfires made by

Trends

New trends have been created within the natural environment, such as the national tourism because of the COVID ·This tourism has an specific public, is usually young people, without kids, or athletes · There has been an important increase of national tourism in all the natural parks of Andalusia which shows that there are more people wanting to do nature tourism and national tourism due to the pandemic.The park of Cazorla has had an important increase in the number of visitors.

The best recommendations of Natural Tourism is Sierra Nevada where many sports can be practised both in winter and summer, Although the peak season is in winter.

Activities such as family skiing, cable car, Russian sledging, tubbing, extreme sports... are offered. So it is suitable for all types of public.

In addition to all the championships that are held and which you can enjoy.

Sierra Nevada National Park, Granada

Travel of persons for essentially cultural purposes, such as study trips, performing arts and cultural trips, trips to festivals and other cultural events, visits to sites and monuments, trips to study nature, folklore or art, and pilgrimages, all of these encompass cultural tourism

That is to say, culture is the essence of the destination and what better place for this than Andalusia?

The incredible Islamic, Renaissance and Baroque architecture of its most important buildings, its castles, fortresses and monasteries, complete a heritage of great importance. Moreover, artists such as Velazquez, Murillo and Picasso were born in these lands, whose works can be found in cathedrals, museums, palaces and churches all over Andalusia.

·Andalucia has a low seasonality

·Complementary activities such as shopping or enjoying the gastronomy

· There’s high expenditure per person per day.

«Dale limosna, mujer, que no hay en la vida nada como la pena de ser ciego en Granada». Francisco de Icaza.

Advantages, disadvantages and Trends

Advantages

·As there is so much tourism in Andalusia, there is a lot of segmentation in the market, that is there is tourism for all types of customers.

·Cultural tourism, apart from contributing to the economic development of the destination, also contributes to social integration and rapprochement with other localities.

Disadvantages

·According to the tourism survey, there is a low level of loyalty to the destination, as it is difficult to repeat the visit once the destination's cultural and heritage resources are known.

·Cultural tourism continues to increase, but growth is slowing down.

Trends

·Andalusians also do a lot of tourism in their own province, that’s in Andalusia, like weekend getaways, for example.

·But also there are many foreigners coming to see our cultural heritage, as it is well known in the rest of the world. Granada is the most visited city in Spain thanks to its tourist resource, the Alhambra. Seville is another of the most visited cities in Spain.

·Cultural tourism in Andalusia tends to have an average visitor age of over 30 years old.

A good recommendation for visiting a large part of Andalusia's cultural tourism is that we have a wide range of cultural routes, such as the Andalusian Legacy, the Romantic Routes of Cadiz, the Betico-Roman Route or the Tempranillo Route.

When it comes to choosing destinations for cultural tourism, the main recommendations and favourites of tourists in Andalusia tend to be Seville, Cordoba and Granada.

In terms of architectural works, we can find the Alhambra Generalife and the Albaicín neighbourhood in Granada, as well as the historic centre of Cordoba, declared a World Heritage Site, or the Alcazar Cathedral and the Archive of the Indies in Seville.

1. Seville

2. Cordoba

3. Granada

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