I. General Concepts 2. Inventories

Step 1: Set the Limits

The first step towards making an inventory is delimiting the area in which you want to work. Whether you want to carry on an interpretative activity or simply deliver information, the most useful approach is to locate a centre for the activity (for example, your own accommodation if you provide such services) and draw areas around it, considering the time required for such excursions. Depending on where the tourists are based it will be also useful to consider inventorying the cultural assets of a nearby town or area that will be worth visiting on its own. It is always better to develop these inventories separately, although some of the features listed will eventually appear in different lists.

As starting point, and depending on the size of the town/village where your business is based, we propose the following delimitations:

1.  An area covering all the cultural tourism features in your village, a visit that can be made in two hours or half a day by walking.
2.  An area including other villages around your own that may be visited by car or bus in half a day or a whole day. Later own, you can carry on inventories of similar areas in your vicinity if they are worth visiting.
3.  A nearby larger town or city of interest that can be visited by car in half a day or a whole day.

You may provide yourself with small scale maps of your region and use them to mark these areas. Later on you will use these maps to plot the existing tourism resources and draw itineraries.

Objectives and Methods

Step 2: List of the Cultural Resources