About
TURICAA – Inclusive, Cultural and Environmentally Friendly Tourism, Ltd is a company focused on promoting tourism that is inclusive, culturally enriching, and environmentally sustainable, in order to create responsible travel experiences that benefit both travelers and host communities.
TURICAA is dedicated to making tourism accessible to people of all abilities, ages, and backgrounds, ensuring that everyone can participate fully in travel experiences. At the same time, it seeks to celebrate and preserve local cultural heritage by offering opportunities for meaningful engagement with traditions, customs, and the arts of each destination. Through respectful collaboration, it helps ensure that cultural representations remain authentic, while also enriching the experience for travelers through genuine interactions with local people.
Likewise, it aims at minimizing the environmental footprint of the touristic experience, through eco-conscious practices, protecting natural resources, supporting biodiversity, sourcing services and products locally and creating employment opportunities.
Inclusive Tourism
TURICAA is a pioneering organization dedicated to transforming the tourism sector by institutionalizing accessibility and social inclusion as a core operational standard. It aims to tourism offers that are attractive to all, independently of their physical or mental limitations.
Cultural Tourism
TURICAA focuses on creating real immersive cultural experiences, exhibiting the local cultural heritage. Simultaneously it cares to minimize the touristic pressure over the culturally rich sites, in order to ensure the long-term authenticity and sustainability of the cultural experiences. By correctly dosing the touristic pressure, TURICAA works as an agent of preservation of the local cultural heritage.
Eco-friendly Tourism
TURICAA operates within the aim of minimizing its environmental footprint, while also providing touristic experiences that immerse in the local natural landscape. This way TURICAA aims to sensibilize for the value of preservation of the nature, to both the tourists and to the local communities that will profit from the eco-tourists.
Hostel Management
TURICAA has also a component of hostel management in a perspective of exploitation of the cultural heritage of a region. Its most emblematic hostel is the "Espinho Vintage" (https://espinhovintage.pt), which is a building formally classified as "building of cultural and historical interest".
Innovation and networking with training centres on Tourism
The package of technical skills demanded to the staff of TURICAA is complex. Therefore TURICAA works closely with local training institutions in Tourism, in order to promote innovation and to fine-tune the training programmes to the skills valued by TURICAA.
