Siendo sincera, en un principio la idea no me entusiasmaba mucho. Sin embargo, he de reconocer que una vez profundicé en la materia y empecé a plantearme qué era exactamente a lo que ser refería todo este galimatías de iniciativas, bases de datos y estudios comparativos, entendí, no sólo que el turismo es una ciencia que comprende a todas las demás disciplinas, si no que además requiere de cantidad de personas y horas de trabajo, de montones y montones de información, de muchas y largas discusiones y reflexiones sobre las diferentes estrategias a seguir, y sobre todo, de esfuerzo, mucho esfuerzo.
Es por esto que el blog se llama "ALGO MÁS QUE CAMINAR". Empezamos esta asignatura haciendo senderismo, algo que en un principio consideraba interesante, bonito, divertido, pero nada más allá de una actividad como cualquier otra, y que con el tiempo me resultó, además de gratificante, una vía para descubrir que en cada sendero, y por extensión, en cada elemento que observamos en nuestra vida cotidiana (cada hotel, cada casa, cada planta, parque, paisaje o montaña) se esconde todo el trabajo de millones de profesionales que dedican su tiempo a asegurarse de que todo funcione bien,a que esté todo controlado y que velan porque todas esas "cosas", que para el ciudadano de a pie, no son más que eso, "cosas", se preserven y se conserven, pues forman parte de nuestra herencia patrimonial.
Así que cuando camines por ahí, recuerda que "caminar" siempre es "algo más", pues esa caminata es el producto final de una cantidad enorme de esfuerzo y trabajo encaminados a que TU puedas observar y guardar en tu memoria cada rasgo del camino.
As a project for the subject " territorial and touristic resources ", we were asked to create a blog publishing the conclusions to which we have come after studying the different aspects conforming the study, the cataloguing, the creation of initiatives and strategies of promotion and conservation (among others) of touristic resources, considering them as any natural, cultural, social and/or urban element that could be used as a touristic product.
To be honest, at first, as it is expected from every student, I thought: " OMG, what a waste! ".
Nevertheless, I have to admit that once I got the real matter of the subject and started to think about what this "gibberish" of initiatives, databases and comparative studies exactly meant , I understood, not only that tourism is a science that includes all other disciplines, but also that it needs a lot of people's professional implication and hours of work, heaps and heaps of information, great and long discussions on the different strategies to go with, and especially effort, a lot of effort.
That is why this blog is called " SLIGHTLY MORE THAN WALKING ". We began this subject hiking, something that I first considered interesting, nice, entertaining, but nothing beyond an activity like any other, and time made me change my mind and I discovered that in every piece of a walk, in every element that we see in our daily life (every hotel, every house, every plant, park, landscape or mountain) it is hidden all the work of millions of professionals who put their time in making sure that everything is and goes working well, that everything is quite controlled and that all these "things", which we, the normal citizens, do not see as anything more but "things", are being preserved and conserved, since they form a part of our patrimonial inheritance.
So please, wherever you "walk", remember that "walking" is always " slightly more than walking", since the road you walk through is just the final product of an enormous amount of effort and work necessary for giving YOU the possibility of enjoying every detail and saving it forever in your memory.
