‘Increasing tourism’ (N¼12, N ¼ number of causes within the
clusters). Within this category, stakeholders cited an increase in
agritourism and the growing presence of tourist facilities as the
main cause of landscape change. According to stakeholders' perspectives,
the multiplication of accommodation facilities and the
development of tourist infrastructure since 1990 have had major
consequences for pasture decline. The disappearance of pasture
land was associated with the availability of European funds for
tourist facilities which have created opportunities for local people
to increase their revenues and abandon former livestock farming
activity which produces low economic returns and is ‘hard work’.
Changes related to tourism growth were considered part of society's
normal evolution, driven by landscape beauty and its
uniqueness in terms of diversity and land use as well as by land
selling property to outsiders whowanted to build holiday homes or
tourism resorts.