Protection of the coastal landscape for tourism sustainability.

In order to respond to the challenge of the sustainable development - that is the conciliation between landscape and environmental protection and socio-economic development – this paper intend to identify methods and scenarios able to promote the development using in balanced and durable way the several landscape and environmental resources. This paper on the “Protection of the Coastal Landscape for Tourism Sustainability” analyses the phenomena manifested between landscape resource and tourist activities. The paper proposes to analyse some tourist development models unable to provoke the degradation of natural ecosystems and the loss of local identities, but oriented to valorisation forms of the environmental, social and cultural characters of the sites. Thus, the tourism, can favourite the economic and cultural development of a territory or, on the contrary, can determinate its irreversible degradation.