Tourism and accommodation dynamics within the local economic system of a protect area.

The long-term stable effects of tourism are brought about by positive economic growth in a particular area. Nowadays it is more imperative than ever to plan the development of tourism in a sustainable way, guaranteeing profits, protecting the countryside and environmental, cultural and religious resources, as well as to ensure the conditions for the creation of benefits throughout the local community. All parties operating within the tourism sector need to contribute in the implementation of a series of actions aimed at creating the prospect of real development. Making local tourism sustainable is a fundamental necessity for local government and must be the basis for all local management activity aimed at enhancing “places” and “spaces”. The analysis of data and results tends to include links and inadequacies rather than principles and methods of intervention in the vast local heritage and the system of tourism supply and demand, in a specific protected area in the province of Messina.