Sustainable development of rural areas: a dynamic model in between tourism exploitation and landscape decline

Abstract This work investigates how to prevent sustainable tourism from turning into over-tourism dynamics. As a matter of fact, the former has shown be capable bringing profit traditional rural activities (i.e. agriculture), sector, environment and cultural heritage region; whereas latter, more often than not, harms brings detriment natural landscape. Hereof, landscape is fundamental resource at base both (RT) activities, it reasonable that adequately support RT certain degree built-up growth new accommodation facilities cognate areas) somewhat needed. However, we want problematize these dynamics shall carefully calibrated appropriately regulated in non-conflictual way. We modeled that: (i) land can either devoted RT-hosting or agriculture; (ii) impacts resources harmfully, thus diminishing profitability sectors. also posit policy instrument preserve resources, financed through revenues. The analysis shows if no applied, over-RT ineluctable. Conversely, with such possible determine an economic space where all peacefully coexist, are minimized.