Pais(vi)agem was born in south Brazil during a field trip in an amazing site. A small but motivated local community surrounded by a dramatic nature, threatened by a pressing reality: a multinational corporation which wanted to build an industrial complex.

Local community played a central role in stopping the process. And this is what we wanted to work on: territorial self-awareness. Only knowing what surrounds us, we can protect it. Tourism becomes a tool for territorial exploration and a way to enforce local communities.

Mapping the territorial potential - enriched with tourism design projects and strategies - allows us to evaluate risks and opportunities of that specific area. Because there is no tourism without landscapes, but also landscapes need an economic support.

Pais(vi)agem aims to design an innovative analytic tool for monitoring the tourism impact on local ecosystems and to export worldwide a new territorial development model based on tourism-landscape.