Geo-mining landscape, slow mobility and services in spatial regeneration

The ‘new’ tourist demand, motivated also by the restrictions following the spread of the Covid-19 virus in recent years, requires institutions and different local actors to activate development processes by also integrating tourism activities. Slow tourism, properly supported by infrastructures for slow mobility, proves to be interesting territorial development strategies which can provide multiple environmental, social, and economic benefits. This contribution takes the Sulcis Iglesiente Guspinese Region (Sardinia, IT), as a case study. In this region, the landscape context is marked by past mining activity and the project of a path of historical, cultural, and religious value has proved to be an activator of regenerative processes. As part of this renewed awareness, the Santa Barbara Path (SBP) has been established (2017), as well as the homonymous Foundation—the Santa Barbara Path Foundation (SBPF), which constantly promotes different modality of accessibility (walk, bike, horse), as well as the provision of specific services, integrated to the whole system of facilities and points of interest in the area. The present manuscript proposes a methodological approach to assess the role of physical and digital services for the slow tourism and the local communities.