Tourism Planning: A River Beach as an Example of an Integrated Sustainable Tourism Plan—The Case of Ameixiosa in São Pedro Do Sul—Portugal

In the inland areas of Portugal there has been a series of interventions, mostly of municipal initiative, that seek to promote economic activity through the promotion and construction of tourist facilities. However, these facilities are repeated in the territory, and sometimes their degree of success is not as expected, particularly in the temporal continuity of the use of these spaces, since many are not subject to a balanced and original integration into a sustainable policy, which has at its core a real assumption of sustainability of projects, territories, environment. Taking the project of a River Beach, for the locality of Ameixiosa, in Portugal, within an integrated tourism planning, we seek to give an example of a sustainable project, in its broadest sense: with the presentation of studies and analysis that cover not only the site itself, but also frame the region and tourism as a way to achieve a solution that enhances the advantages of the site and the region where it belongs, while seeking to turn into positive points, some of the less positive aspects that the site and the region have. A section of the project is presented that shows the environmental and energy use issues present in the proposed beach areas, were sustainability principles such as the use of local materials, the river water and the landscape maintenance, were considered, maintaining the bioenvironmental characteristics of the river.