Resumo: Much has been said about tourism planning. We only have to look into academic literature to trace dozens of methodological proposals that have been exposed since the early 1950s. Despite this creative maelstrom, all of them can be gathered within the framework of Hall (2008). However, when this exercise is applied to the case of resources, which form the basis upon which any tourism development process is built, the results about how to plan them differ considerably. In this theoretical investigation, which seeks to identify the models existing with respect to the planning, of resources and their similarities and differences, a bibliographic review of the academic studies published in recent decades has been conducted. The results reveal diversity in tourism planning models and those related to assessment of resource attractiveness. Nevertheless, very few studies are related to the specific planning in order to convert resources into tourist resources. Considerable ground has still to be covered in termsof adapting the raw material of tourism to tourism purposes.
