Quantifying limits related to tourism has long since ceased to be based on subjective prosody or quality of life questionnaires with sample selection bias or application limitations due to the lack of robustness of the instruments used.
The updated metrics will be introduced through correction factors considered environmentally or socially significant, such as soil erosion (particularly important in the case of Pico mountain), the accessibility of residents and their families to air transport to the visited area, or the disruption of quality of life in a given parish.
The Sustainable Flight project aims to gather contributions from the Azorean population (residents and diaspora) regarding the aspects they consider most important to their memories of living, being, or being raised in the Azores.
The physical carrying capacity of a location is based on its area and number of visitors, to which is added the actual capacity, which consists of applying correction factors derived from physical limits. These factors are dynamic, depending on the environmental or social changes observed on terrain. It will be necessary to consider the third […]