Informational Heritage, Sustainable Development and Tourism: The Urban Route of the Fisherman’s Project

The Fisherman’s Route reflects the interinstitutional collaboration between the Higher Institute of Accounting and Administration of Porto and the Parish Council of Vila do Conde, developed as part of a sustainable tourism project based on the largest fishing community in the Country: Poca da Barca and Caxinas. It aims to safeguard cultural and immaterial heritage, promoting the transfer of knowledge using the skills of the information professional acquired in the degree in Sciences and Technologies of Documentation and Information. Through the application of semi-structured interviews and documentary analysis, the identification of the relevant information was carried out, regarding informational heritage, ethnographic, cultural, religious, architectural, related to shipbuilding and the clothing and gastronomy. The results are: the creation of the project logo; the creation of merchandising and a glossary of the typical language of the caxineiro; the outline of a small pedestrian route; the creation of a Facebook page and the re-creation of certain community traditions as well as an online portal and an app designed for tourists. The project assumes itself as a model of great importance in the sustainable development based on tourist initiatives, valuing the traditions and the memory, preserving the informational heritage connected to the fishing activity of those communities.