Territorial tourism planning in Spain : from boosterism to tourism degrowth?
Blázquez-Salom, Macià (Universitat de les Illes Balears. Departament de Geografia)
Blanco-Romero, Asunción (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Geografia)
Vera-Rebollo, Fernando (Universitat d'Alacant. Departament d'Anàlisi Geogràfica Regional i Geografia Física)
Ivars-Baidal, Josep (Universitat d'Alacant. Departament d'Anàlisi Geogràfica Regional i Geografia Física)

Additional title:	La planificación territorial del turismo en España : ¿del desarrollismo al decrecimiento turístico?
Date:	2019
Description:	21 pàg.
Abstract:	Tourism saturation and unsustainability have been studied in urban political ecology. Both of these problems are inseparable from tourism planning and they have resulted in proposed solutions based on growth containment and even degrowth. These types of measures have been applied to varying degrees in mature coastal destinations in Spain since the 1990s, and they are currently being used for the country's main urban destinations due to problems generated by tourism saturation. This study examines the progressive incorporation of these measures in territorial tourism planning in Spain and it points out that the traditional emphasis on urban-tourism growth is declining and that more restrictive policies are now being implemented. This shift is illustrated through the analysis of three innovative territorial tourism planning instruments in Barcelona, the Balearic Islands and the Autonomous Region of Valencia. These ostensibly progressive processes suffer from crippling contradictions due to their inability to directly confront the capitalist accumulation model underlying the tourism growth they address. Consequently, much stronger measures capable of transcending this accumulation model in pursuit of genuine, and fair degrowth without systemic constraints are needed.
Grants:	Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad CSO2015-64468-P Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad CSO2016-74861-R Agencia Estatal de Investigación CSO2017-82592-R Agencia Estatal de Investigación RTI2018-094844-B-C31
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Subject:	Political Ecology ; Degrowth ; Growth containment ; Tourism saturation ; Tourism planning instruments ; Spain
Published in:	Journal of sustainable tourism, Vol. 27 Núm. 12 (2019) , p. 1764-1785, ISSN 1747-7646

DOI: 10.1080/09669582.2019.1675073

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