Challenges
Valle Flôr Consulting (VFC), Ecovisão Cabo Verde and Proactivetur intervene in the sector of sustainable tourism and nature on the Fogo Island, Cape Verde, as part of the project “Marking of the Footpaths Network on the Santiago Island, Cape Verde”, funded by the Cape Verde Ministry of Tourism and Transport through the Social Sustainability Fund for Tourism. The VFC, in collaboration with the project’s development partners, is responsible for implementing the activities.
Solutions
Running from April 2022 to October 2022, this project includes the marking of the network of footpaths and trails on the Fogo Island, with a main route that crosses the entire island and complementary routes.
Results
Cartographic, digital, photographic and physical signposting survey of a main footpath on the Fogo Island, which crosses the entire island and also complementary routes with ramifications in the three municipalities, integrating the identification of the historical, ethnographic and natural heritage, the existing communities and the services on offer, as well as its dissemination through a set of virtual communities specialised in trekking, mountain biking and trail running.