Fonte: Journal of Tourism & Development; n. 5 (2006); 77-94
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Resumo: Sao Tome and Principe is a Small Island Developing State (SIDS) that presents potentialities for the ecotourism practice. It is endowed with a diversified environmental patrimony, in forestland and aquatic context, concerning floral and animal species, and characterized by specific sociocultural traits. After 2000, the national strategic option for the tourism improvement converged on the ecological segment, valuating the mixed protagonism under the state orientation where the local intervention level acquired importance.In the present text I propose to analyse the relevance of the alternative tourism promoting local development in african insular context, based on the communitary enveloping and evidencing care with the environmental preservation.
