Overview
- Provides unique insight into the progress of tourism in Spain
- Discusses tourism in Spain after COVID-19
- Identifies specific concepts in Spanish tourism geographies
Part of the book series: Geographies of Tourism and Global Change (GTGC)
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Territorial Diversity
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Front Matter
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Different Approaches
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Front Matter
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Keywords
- Tourism Geography
- Spain
- Tourist destinations
- Economic Geography
- Regional Geography
- Rural tourism
- Ecotourism
- Smart tourism
- Resilience
- Sun and beach resorts
- Beach management
- Sustainability indicators
- Labour conditions
- Water supply
- Landscape
- Overtourism
- Urban touristification
- Tourist gentrification
- Socio-economic vulnerability
- Housing commodification
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Spanish Tourism Geographies
Book Subtitle: Territorial Diversity and Different Approaches
Editors: Asunción Blanco-Romero, Macià Blázquez-Salom
Series Title: Geographies of Tourism and Global Change
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39780-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39779-0Published: 02 October 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39782-0Due: 01 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-39780-6Published: 30 September 2023
Series ISSN: 2366-5610
Series E-ISSN: 2366-5629
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 480
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Geography, Tourism Management, Tourism Management