**Author details**

*Peripheral Territories, Tourism, and Regional Development*

sal to others in these border areas.

mental sustainability.

**Acknowledgements**

We think that the Guadiana and the Border can become a necessary tourist itinerary, with offers geared towards tourist demands that seek new experiences in little-known destinations and around tourist typologies linked to rural areas, heritage, and history. A greater revaluation of the cultural and natural heritage and an increase in tourism could be a complementary solution to curb the phenomenon of rural depopulation that plagues this territory and most of the Portuguese-Spanish line. It would be a new product, border tourism, perfectly compatible and transver-

It will be necessary to see the behavior of the population in the next decade to draw more conclusions from the variations it suffers and from the activities and policies that are carried out, analyzing their value for both economic and environ-

The authors wish to acknowledge funding for this research work from the VI Regional Research Plan and the Regional Government of Extremadura and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), associated with financing the research group Sustainable Development and Territorial Planning (GR18052), the Environmental Resources Analysis Research Group (GR18054), Functional Study of Mediterranean Ecosystems (GR18078) and Institute of Local

Development (HUM260) from the University of Huelva.

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José Manuel Naranjo Gómez1,2,3, Jacinto Garrido Velarde1,3,4, José Martín Gallardo5 , José Manuel Jurado Almonte6,7, Julian Mora Aliseda1,3 and José Cabezas Fernández1,2,8\*

1 INTERRA - University Research Institute for Sustainable Territorial Development, University of Extremadura, Spain

2 VALORIZA - Research Centre for Endogenous Resource Valorization, Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre (IPP), Portugal

3 DESOSTE - Sustainable Development of the Territory Research Group, University of Extremadura, Spain

4 Department of Social Sciences, Languages and Literatures, University of Extremadura, Spain

5 Functional Studies of Mediterranean Ecosystems, University of Extremadura, Spain

6 Department of History, Geography and Anthropology, University of Huelva, Spain

7 Institute of Local Development, University of Huelva, Spain

8 ARAM - Environmental Resources Analysis Research Group, University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain

\*Address all correspondence to: jocafer@unex.es

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