Rural tourism in Portugal: moving to the countryside

The maps produced in this article allow an extended interpretation of rural tourism’s development mainland Portugal by identifying spatio-temporal patterns, relationships, and connections. This is accomplished through the superimposition multiple thematic layers kernel density analysis to potentially predict ruralisation patterns. demonstrate that tourism observed a centrifugal dispersive pattern, spreading from semi-urban deep-rural areas. further refined applying CHAID algorithm helping show more recent establishments are avoiding towns villages locating closer agricultural land protected complementary analyses provide multidimensional understanding spatial exemplified complex relationships between location factors distinct accommodation typologies.