Spanish Tourism Geographies

This book provides an overview of the progress in Spanish tourism geography, particularly after the overlay of financial, pandemic and climate crisis, by the scrutiny of the different geographical areas and variables of analysis. It shows the diversity of geographical environments and their varied relationship with tourism, from the emptied inland regions to urban heritage in historic centres to coastal resorts. The book also introduces the analysis of the most important variables when studying the implications of Spanish tourist specialization. How are the beaches with intensive tourist use managed? What socio-spatial processes do leisure-rooted migrations involve? What are the labour conditions in the Spanish tourism industry? How does saving water boost tourism growth? The book offers answers through a methodological specificity of Spanish geography, which is highly oriented towards the analysis of public policies and even the proposal of new planning and methodology formulas that go beyond diagnostic studies.

The domestic perspective, or that of insiders, of these scientists residing in Spain bestows them with special codes for conducting interpretations and analyses based on their everyday proximity to a territory characterised by its intense touristification. The tourism and real estate specialisation that Spanish society, together with its territory and institutions, have forged since the beginning of developmentalism permeates this scientific analysis.

By providing a strong conceptual and empirical portrait, this book is a great resource for students and scholars in geography of tourism, as well as for social scientists and policy makers.

Provides unique insight into the progress of tourism in Spain Discusses tourism in Spain after COVID-19 Identifies specific concepts in Spanish tourism geographies

Autorentext

Asunción Blanco-Romero is Tenured Associate Professor of Geography at the Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona (Spain). She is a member of the TUDISTAR research group (Tourism and new social and socio-territorial dynamics) in which she has participated in several research projects. She has been president of the "Tourism, leisure and recreation" working group of the Spanish Geography Association. She is also the editor or the scientific journal DAG (Documents d Anàlisi Geogràfica). Her research and teaching interests include resilience tourism and local development, globalization and sustainability degrowth strategies, territorial planning, geographic and gender issues in cooperative development, and critical perspective in tourism studies. Macià Blázquez-Salom is Professor in Geography at the Universitat de les Illes Balears. He teaches and researches on tourism, sustainability and land use planning. He has been visitor scholar in universities of Mexico (Toluca and La Paz), Nicaragua (UNAN), Dominican Republic (INTEC), Austria (Salzburg), Germany (Rurh-Bochum), Sweden (Mid-Sweden) and the Netherlands (Wageningen). As a way to link activism and research, within the framework of Radical Geography and Political Ecology, he collaborates with social movements in Spain, particularly in the Balearic Islands, but also in Latin America.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- Part 1. Territorial Diversity.- 2. Tourism in Emptied Spain (Xosé Somoza Medina and Marta Somoza Medina).- 3. Inland Spain: Challenges & Opportunities of Undertourism Contexts within the Local Turn (Inmaculada Diaz-Soria, Asunción Blanco-Romero & Gemma Cánoves Valiente).- 4. Nature Conservation Policies and Tourism in Spain (Nora Müller and Macià Blázquez-Salom).- 5. Learnings for Spain from the Experience of the Good Practices of the European Project SmartRural (Antonio Martínez-Puche, Luis Alfonso Hortelano Mínguez & Xavier Amat-Montesinos).- 6. The Fragility of Successful Tourism Destinations Linked to Cultural Itineraries: the Example of the Way of St (James. Lucrezia Lopez, Rubén Camilo Lois González & Rossella Moscarelli).- 7. Turistification and Urban Heritage in Spanish Historic Centres: Permanence and Changes in a Long Process (Manuel de la Calle-Vaquero & María García-Hernández).- 8. Risks of the Current State of Overtourism in Medium and Small Cities of Spain's Interior: an Analysis through Indicators (Carmen Hidalgo-Giralt, Antonio Palacios-García, Diego A. Barrado-Timón and Francisca Cea-D'Ancona).- 9. Overtourism in Mature Coastal Destinations on the Spanish North Atlantic Coast (Carlos Alberto Patiño-Romarís, Rubén Camilo Lois-González & Breixo Martins Rodal).- 10. Governing the Social Production of Spain's Sun and Sand Tourist Resorts (Macià Blázquez-Salom & Ivan Murray).- 11. Reinventing Destination Management and Planning: Taking Stock of a Decade of Smart Destinations Development in Spain (Josep A. Ivars-Baidal, Francisco Femenia-Serra, Marco A. Celdrán-Bernabeu and David Giner-Sánchez).- Part 2. Different Approaches.- 12. Beaches Erosion of Intense Tourist use (Guillem X. Pons).- 13. The Relationship Between Water and Tourism in the Spanish Mediterranean: an Efficient Management? (Rubén Villar-Navascués, Carlos Baños Castiñeira, Jorge Olcina Cantos & María Hernández Hernández).- 14. The Territorial Quality Mark and Landscape asa Strategy for Inland Tourism (Paloma Ibarra-Benlloch, Isabel Rabanaque-Hernández, Elena De Uña-Álvarez & Montserrat Villarino-Pérez).- 15. Land Use in Spanish Coast: Tourism as a Driving Force of Landscape Change (1990-2018) (María-Dolores Pitarch-Garrido & Carmen Zornoza-Gallego).- 16. Sustainable Tourism Indicators in Cities (Anna Torres-Delgado, Aurélie Cerdan Schwitzguébel & Pol Pareto Boada).- 17. Touristification and Gentrification in Spain: Perspectives and Challenges for the Post-pandemic era (Gustavo Javier Macías Mendoza & Antonio Paolo Russo).- 18. The Vicious Circle: Intersecting Leisure-Rooted Migrations and Ethnic-Based Segregation in the Mediterranean Spanish cities (Jesús M. González-Pérez & Ismael Yrigoy).- 19. Touristification and Vulnerability in Urban Centres: Concepts and Analysis Approaches from the Geography of Spanish Tourism (Alfonso Fernández-Tabales, María José Piñeira-Mantiñán & Carmen Mínguez).- 20. Chambermaids: a Focus of Attention in Studies of TourismEmployment in Spain (Ernest Cañada).- 21. Covid-19 Landing on Touristified and Unequal Spaces in Spain (Maria Antònia Martínez-Caldentey & Ivan Murray).- 22. Coastal Tourist Destinations in Spain: Growth, Social Reaction and Answers: Practices for a Post-Growth Scenario (Enrique Navarro-Jurado, Yolanda Romero-Padilla & José María Romero-Martínez).- 23. Package Holidays and Charter Companies in Spain (2004-2021): The End of a Fordist Pair? (David Ramos-Pérez).- 24. Accessible Tourism in Spain: how are Smart Cities Performing? (Rosario Navalón-García, Ana Clara Rucci & Raquel Huete).