Forests and tourism: Forest tourism in Galicia

This paper examines the main characteristics of the tourism sector in Galicia today and analyzes the special features of a particular type of tourism: forest tourism. The aim is to highlight that forest tourism is an activity which affords many opportunities for development in Galicia and can function as both a catalyst for certain rural areas and a complement to other tourism activities that have already been developed in Galicia. To achieve this objective, the distribution and characteristics of forests and their relation to the territorial distribution of other types of tourism, such as rural tourism or ecotourism, are analyzed.