Planificación territorial del turismo

Planificación territorial del turismo
Author: Salvador Anton Clavé
Publisher: Editorial UOC
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2011-07-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9788497883528

Esta obra pretende ser una iniciación a los principales mecanismos de planificación del espacio turístico. Con esta finalidad, se presentan los conceptos teóricos y los instrumentos y procedimientos metodológicos necesarios para observar el proceso de implantación de las prácticas de planificación y los beneficios que comporta su utilización y generalización. La obra está dividida en tres capítulos. En el primero se explican aspectos básicos sobre ordenación del territorio y planificación en general. En el segundo capítulo, se analizan detalladamente algunas técnicas y herramientas de análisis territorial directamente aplicables a la planificación turística del territorio y los procedimientos para asegurar su correcto uso. El último capítulo está dedicado a la elaboración de planes turísticos de carácter territorial, incluyéndose varios casos concretos que se estudian a fondo.

Territorial Heritage and Development

Territorial Heritage and Development
Author: José Maria Feria
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2012-03-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0415621453

This book presents a new approach to heritage, linking it to territory and sustainable development. This new approach entails a broader, integrated view of heritage values on the one hand, and on the other a shift in emphasis from their protection to their valorisation. In short, it provides a view of the joint workings of natural and cultural resources, and, as a consequence, moving away from a protection point of view in favour of a perspective on their suitable sustainable valorisation. In the viewpoint taken here, sustainability is understood as the balance and long-term preservation and enhancement of such natural and cultural resources and processes in a given territory. Territorial Heritage and Development includes contributions from different disciplines (geography, architecture, planning, sociology, environmental studies and archaeology) and case studies drawn from three continents, broaching both analytical and conceptual developments, and a range of initiatives for engaging in territorial heritage as an instrument of sustainable development. The book takes a pioneering and relevant approach to the breadth and complexity of the issue which can be valuable to academics and policy-makers in Geography, Architecture, Planning and Sociology.

Spanish Tourism Geographies

Spanish Tourism Geographies
Author: Asunción Blanco-Romero
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2023-09-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3031397800

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.

Territorial Heritage and Development

Territorial Heritage and Development
Author: Jose Maria Feria
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2012-03-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1040192084

This book presents a new approach, which entails a broader, integrated view of heritage values on the one hand, and on the other a shift in emphasis from their protection to their valorisation. Territorial Heritage and Development includes contributions from different disciplines (geography, architecture, planning, sociology, environmental studies and archaeology), and is valuable to academics and policy-makers in Geography, Architecture, Planning and Sociology.

Uncharted: The New Landscape of Tourism

Uncharted: The New Landscape of Tourism
Author: Juan Elvira
Publisher: Actar D, Inc.
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2022-02-25
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 163840982X

UNCHARTED / New Landscapes of Tourism has a two-fold objective: to explore new avenues of thought in design teaching, and to do so through research that deals with new architectural landscapes that are linked to tourism. Publishing the Undergraduate Final Projects from IE University’s Undergraduate Architecture program responds to the desire to highlight the importance of design strategies in the process of reformulating the tourist offering within the framework of an open debate about new models for development. The infrastructural nature of architectural design imbues the architect’s creative capacity with the healthy ambition of transforming the territory into new landscapes for touristic opportunities. These new landscapes have been categorized here as productive, urban, industrial, extreme and reversible. UNCHARTED includes additional contributions on architecture, tourism and teaching by José Miguel Iribas, Elia Zenghelis and Eleni Gigantes.

Tourism and Cuba

Tourism and Cuba
Author: Lauren Duffy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2020-05-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0429638655

Cuba has experienced many social, economic, and political changes since Raul Castro retained presidency of the island nation in 2008. This comprehensive volume examines how Cuba has restructured some of its core economic policies in order to tackle stagnation; these include allowing for more legalized private enterprises, reducing the number of State-employed workers, and fostering additional outside investments. The authors explore the surge of entrepreneurial activity in tourism among Cuban residents due to these reforms, whether that be offering new tourism products or expanding traditional ones. Though the current diplomatic climate suggests continued uncertainty, the ripple effect of a potentially thawing relationship between Cuba and the USA resulted in an unexpected surge of international tourists wishing to experience Cuba before it opened to the American travel market. This book highlights the factors that are influencing, and in some cases complicating, tourism planning and development in Cuba. The authors explore a wide range of topics including tourism and land-use policy, competitiveness, responsible practices, gender and ethical advertising, the role of tour guides, emergence of casa particulares, experiential learning and solidarity, and authenticity through local art. This book will interest students, researchers, politicians and investors with a focus on Cuba. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal Tourism Planning & Development.

Tourism and Degrowth

Tourism and Degrowth
Author: Robert Fletcher
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2020-06-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000066363

Tourism and Degrowth develops a conceptual framework and research agenda for exploring the relationship between tourism and degrowth. Rapid and uneven expansion of tourism as a response to the 2008 economic crisis has proceeded in parallel with the rise of social discontent concerning so-called "overtourism." Meanwhile, despite decades of concerted global effort to achieve sustainable development, socioecological conflicts and inequality have rarely reversed, but in fact increased in many places. Degrowth, understood as both social theory and social movement, has emerged within the context of this global crisis. However, thus far the vibrant degrowth discussion has yet to engage systematically with the tourism industry in particular, while, by the same token, tourism research has largely neglected explicit discussion of degrowth. This volume brings the two discussions together to interrogate their complementarity. Identifying a growth imperative in the basic structure of the capitalist economy, the contributors contend that mounting critique of overtourism can be understood as a structural response to the ravages of capitalist development more broadly. Debate concerning overtourism thus offers a valuable opportunity to re-politicise discussion of tourism development generally. Exploring of the potential for degrowth to facilitate a truly sustainable tourism, Tourism and Degrowth will be of great interest to scholars of tourism, environmental sustainability and development. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Sustainable Tourism.

Discovery of Geospatial Resources: Methodologies, Technologies, and Emergent Applications

Discovery of Geospatial Resources: Methodologies, Technologies, and Emergent Applications
Author: Díaz, Laura
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2012-04-30
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 146660946X

"This book provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research finding to improve understanding of geospatial discovery methodologies and technologies, as well as techniques to design and deploy geospatial resources in Information Infrastructures"--Provided by publisher.

The Global Theme Park Industry

The Global Theme Park Industry
Author: Salvador Anton Clavé
Publisher: CABI
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1845932080

Since the 1980s, the theme park industry has developed into a global phenomenon, with everything from large, worldwide theme parks to countless smaller ventures. From the first pleasure gardens to the global theme park companies, this book provides an understanding of the nature and function of theme parks as spaces of entertainment. Illustrated throughout by worldwide case studies, empirical data and practical examples, the book portrays the impacts of theme park as global competitive actors, agents of global development and cultural symbols, particularly in the context of their role in the developing experience economy. In conclusion, this book is a practical guide to the planning and development of theme parks.

Second Home Tourism in Europe

Second Home Tourism in Europe
Author: Zoran Roca
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2016-04-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317058518

Bringing together a wide range of studies from twelve European countries, this book offers a state-of-the-art overview of the driving forces behind spatial diversity and social complexity inherent in second home expansion in all parts of the continent - from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean and from the British Isles to Russia - in the context of contemporary mobility patterns largely induced by tourism. As befits the overall conception of the book as a compendium of current second home research, planning and policy issues, the book endorses the following: multidisciplinary approaches to the second home phenomenon as an expression of the ’leisure class’ mobility and recreation-based lifestyles, as well as a constitutive element of post-productivist land-use patterns and landscape change; and socio-economic and territorial development planning and policy-related perspectives on social change and spatial re-organization provoked by the expansion of second home tourism in times of prosperity and crisis. ’This book shows that second home tourism has become such an important sector of the economy that it is no longer possible to let it develop freely: it is the source of new forms of social deprivation; it generates residential economies that are particularly sensitive to the economic cycle; it often impairs beautiful landscapes and increases human pressure on natural environments. As a result, it is one of the major physical planning stakes of touristic areas’ (From the concluding essay by Paul Claval, Université de Paris I - Sorbonne, Paris, France).