Patrimonio y turismo sostenible en el Camino de Santiago: la gestión de las administraciones locales del itinerario francés en Galicia

espanolEl objetivo principal de este trabajo se dirige a estudiar y valorar la actuacion de las administraciones locales en el itinerario frances del Camino de Santiago en su papel de aprovechar el patrimonio de cada municipio y favorecer un turismo sostenible como factor de desarrollo local. El analisis se situa en el paradigma consecuente con la aprobacion en 2008 de la Carta de Itinerarios Culturales del Internacional Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), que establecio definitivamente el valor de los itinerarios culturales para promover actividades turisticas y desarrollo sostenible. Entre los resultados del estudio que sirvio de base para este articulo destaca la asimetria existente entre el potencial turistico derivado de los recursos naturales, etnograficos y monumentales del Camino, y la escasa dotacion de equipamientos turisticos en los municipios, unida a la ineficiencia de las administraciones locales en la gestion de aquellos recursos. EnglishThe main objective of this paper is to assess local governments’ actions in the French Route of the Way of Saint James, aimed at capitalizing on the heritage of each municipality and favoring sustainable tourism as a factor for local development. The analysis is carried out within the paradigm derived from the approval of the Charter on Cultural Routes by the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) in 2008, which definitively settled the value of cultural routes for promoting tourism and sustainable development. Among the results of the study in which this article is based, it underlines the asymmetry between the tourism potential of natural, ethnographic and monumental resources in the Way, and the scarce local tourism infrastructure in the municipalities, added to the inefficiency of local governments when managing those resources.The main objective of this paper is to assess local governments’ actions in the French Route of the Way of Saint James, aimed at capitalizing on the heritage of each municipality and favoring sustainable tourism as a factor for local development. The analysis is carried out within the paradigm derived from the approval of the Charter on Cultural Routes by the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) in 2008, which definitively settled the value of cultural routes for promoting tourism and sustainable development. Among the results of the study in which this article is based, it underlines the asymmetry between the tourism potential of natural, ethnographic and monumental resources in the Way, and the scarce local tourism infrastructure in the municipalities, added to the inefficiency of local governments when managing those resources.