The difficulties in the development of mining tourism projects: the case of La Unión Mining District (SE Spain)

Mine sites are atypical industrial sites because they encompass not only economic but also landscape and anthropologic components. The need of developing new economic opportunities in areas, where a “mining monoculture” was the economic backbone, has resulted in the re-interpretation of mining activ...

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Author: Conesa, Héctor M.
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2010
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de La Laguna (ULL)
Repository:RIULL. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
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Keyword:Patrimonio minero
Paisaje
Turismo cultural
Medio ambiente
Sureste de España
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spelling The difficulties in the development of mining tourism projects: the case of La Unión Mining District (SE Spain)Conesa, Héctor M.Patrimonio mineroPaisajeTurismo culturalMedio ambienteSureste de EspañaMine sites are atypical industrial sites because they encompass not only economic but also landscape and anthropologic components. The need of developing new economic opportunities in areas, where a “mining monoculture” was the economic backbone, has resulted in the re-interpretation of mining activity from a cultural viewpoint. Some traditional mining towns from both, recent and ancient times, have forgone mining activity and have become new tourist attractions sites. However, the process of developing tourism in these zones is not easy and necessarily incorporates social, economic and environmental requirements. This paper describes the constraints, possibilities and efforts that meet in the former mining town of La Unión, Southeast Spain. It will be investigated in a critic point of view the current projects that, though in low number, try to preserve the identity and history of the town while generating relatively significant economic incomes.Las zonas mineras constituyen lugares de interés especial desde el punto de vista cultural ya que reúnen matices económicos, de paisaje y antropológicos. La necesidad de desarrollar nuevas oportunidades económicas en áreas dedicadas en exclusiva a la actividad minera ha llevado a reinter- pretar dicha actividad desde el punto de vista antropológico y cultural constituyendo en la actualidad importantes focos de atracción turística. Sin embargo, este proceso no es fácil y presenta una serie de condicionamientos sociales, económicos y medioambientales. Este artículo describe los puntos fuer- tes y débiles para el desarrollo del turismo minero en el pueblo de La Unión (Sureste de la península ibérica). Se investigará desde un punto de vista crítico los proyectos actuales, que aunque en pequeño número, tratan de preservar la identidad e historia locales a la vez que generar ingresos económicos.Instituto Universitario de Ciencias Politicas y Sociales. Universidad de La Laguna (Tenerife, España)202020202010info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttp://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/18579reponame:RIULL. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de La Lagunainstname:Universidad de La Laguna (ULL)InglésPasos, Año 2010, vol. 8, n. 4, pp.653-660;Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:riull.ull.es:915/185792026-06-22T13:13:57Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The difficulties in the development of mining tourism projects: the case of La Unión Mining District (SE Spain)
title The difficulties in the development of mining tourism projects: the case of La Unión Mining District (SE Spain)
spellingShingle The difficulties in the development of mining tourism projects: the case of La Unión Mining District (SE Spain)
Conesa, Héctor M.
Patrimonio minero
Paisaje
Turismo cultural
Medio ambiente
Sureste de España
title_short The difficulties in the development of mining tourism projects: the case of La Unión Mining District (SE Spain)
title_full The difficulties in the development of mining tourism projects: the case of La Unión Mining District (SE Spain)
title_fullStr The difficulties in the development of mining tourism projects: the case of La Unión Mining District (SE Spain)
title_full_unstemmed The difficulties in the development of mining tourism projects: the case of La Unión Mining District (SE Spain)
title_sort The difficulties in the development of mining tourism projects: the case of La Unión Mining District (SE Spain)
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Conesa, Héctor M.
author Conesa, Héctor M.
author_facet Conesa, Héctor M.
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Patrimonio minero
Paisaje
Turismo cultural
Medio ambiente
Sureste de España
topic Patrimonio minero
Paisaje
Turismo cultural
Medio ambiente
Sureste de España
description Mine sites are atypical industrial sites because they encompass not only economic but also landscape and anthropologic components. The need of developing new economic opportunities in areas, where a “mining monoculture” was the economic backbone, has resulted in the re-interpretation of mining activity from a cultural viewpoint. Some traditional mining towns from both, recent and ancient times, have forgone mining activity and have become new tourist attractions sites. However, the process of developing tourism in these zones is not easy and necessarily incorporates social, economic and environmental requirements. This paper describes the constraints, possibilities and efforts that meet in the former mining town of La Unión, Southeast Spain. It will be investigated in a critic point of view the current projects that, though in low number, try to preserve the identity and history of the town while generating relatively significant economic incomes.
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