TY - JFULL AU - Miguel Jos茅 Oliveira and F谩tima Farinha and Elisa M. J. da Silva and Rui Lan莽a and Manuel Duarte Pinheiro and C谩tia Miguel PY - 2019/10/ TI - Observatory of Sustainability of the Algarve Region for Tourism: Proposal for Environmental and Sociocultural Indicators T2 - International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences SP - 1234 EP - 1242 VL - 13 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10010749 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 153, 2019 N2 - The Observatory of Sustainability of the Algarve Region for Tourism (OBSERVE) will be a valuable tool to assess the sustainability of this region. The OBSERVE tool is designed to provide data and maintain an up-to-date, consistent set of indicators defined to describe the region on the environmental, sociocultural, economic and institutional domains. This ongoing two-year project has the active participation of the Algarve’s stakeholders, since they were consulted and asked to participate in the discussion for the indicators proposal. The environmental and sociocultural indicators chosen must indicate the characteristics of the region and should be in alignment with other global systems used to monitor the sustainability. This paper presents a review of sustainability indicators systems that support the first proposal for the environmental and sociocultural indicators. Others constraints are discussed, namely the existing data and the data available in digital platforms in a format suitable for automatic importation to the platform of OBSERVE. It is intended that OBSERVE will be a valuable tool to assess the sustainability of the region of Algarve. ER -