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The institution, the Mariñas Coruñesas and Terras do Mandeo Biosphere Reserve and the Provincial Council of A Coruña are promoting its launch, scheduled for 2023.

Tourism in the municipalities around A Coruña will soon have a new tool to examine its functioning, detect its weaknesses and strengths and draw up plans and strategies to take advantage of its development opportunities. These are some of the objectives of the Chair of Sustainable Tourism, which the Mariñas Coruñesas and Terras do Mandeo Biosphere Reserve, the University of A Coruña (UDC) and the Provincial Council have decided to set up.

The aim of the three institutions is that this new Chair will be in operation next year and that it will incorporate other entities in order to contribute to its function as “an engine for planning and attracting new investments in the territory”. This was expressed by the president of the biosphere reserve, José Santiso Miramontes, at the event held in recent days to publicise the initiative. He was joined by the vice-president of the Provincial Council of A Coruña, Xosé Regueira; the secretary of the UDC, Carlos Aymerich; the dean of the Faculty of Tourism of A Coruña, Rosa María Mariz, and the professor of that centre, Carlos Rodríguez, among others.

Their intention is for the Chair to function as a “real-time tourism observatory” that will enable “the tourist idea of the reserve to be promoted on the basis of research and knowledge transfer”.

The Mariñas Coruñesas and Terras do Mandeo Biosphere Reserve is made up of the municipalities of Abegondo, Aranga,Arteixo, Bergondo, Betanzos, Cambre, Carral, Coirós, Culleredo, Curtis, Irixoa, Miño, Oleiros, Oza-Cesuras, Paderne, Sada and Sobrado, which represents just over 14% of the territory of the province of A Coruña.