Hiking tourism in Spain: Origins, issues and transformations

In Spain, hiking is an activity that involves following paths, which may or may not be signposted, on foot, for sporting and cultural purposes. In the country as a whole, although with important regional variations, hiking has traditionally been linked to mountaineering and rambling clubs. However,...

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Autor: Gómez Martín, Belén
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/155520
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Palabra clave:Turisme esportiu
Senderisme
Desenvolupament rural
Sports tourism
Hiking
Rural development
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spelling Hiking tourism in Spain: Origins, issues and transformationsGómez Martín, BelénTurisme esportiuSenderismeDesenvolupament ruralSports tourismHikingRural developmentIn Spain, hiking is an activity that involves following paths, which may or may not be signposted, on foot, for sporting and cultural purposes. In the country as a whole, although with important regional variations, hiking has traditionally been linked to mountaineering and rambling clubs. However, at the beginning of the 1990s this activity became much more widely popular, reaching beyond the more limited sphere within which the pioneers of hiking in Spain had acted. Hiking stopped being just a sporting and cultural activity and also became a form of tourism and leisure, coinciding with the emergence and consolidation of what have become known as alternative forms of tourism. In this context of change, hiking tourism has gradually evolved over the years into a strategic option for development in many territories. This article presents the most important aspects of this transformation: the changes in the territorial model for the management of the paths on which the creation of hiking tourism products is based; the fact that in the design of routes more consideration is being given to the differential characteristics of tourist demand for hiking; the adaptation of the accommodation, restaurant facilities and the main specific services associated with it; and the emergence and engagement of new stakeholders in the processes of planning, distribution and communication of this activity.MDPI2019info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/155520Articles publicats en revistes (Geografia)reponame:Dipòsit Digital de la UBinstname:Universidad de BarcelonaInglésReproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.3390/su11133619Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, num. 13, p. 3619https://doi.org/10.3390/su11133619cc-by (c) Gómez Martín, Belén, 2019http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/esinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/1555202026-05-27T06:46:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Hiking tourism in Spain: Origins, issues and transformations
title Hiking tourism in Spain: Origins, issues and transformations
spellingShingle Hiking tourism in Spain: Origins, issues and transformations
Gómez Martín, Belén
Turisme esportiu
Senderisme
Desenvolupament rural
Sports tourism
Hiking
Rural development
title_short Hiking tourism in Spain: Origins, issues and transformations
title_full Hiking tourism in Spain: Origins, issues and transformations
title_fullStr Hiking tourism in Spain: Origins, issues and transformations
title_full_unstemmed Hiking tourism in Spain: Origins, issues and transformations
title_sort Hiking tourism in Spain: Origins, issues and transformations
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Gómez Martín, Belén
author Gómez Martín, Belén
author_facet Gómez Martín, Belén
author_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Turisme esportiu
Senderisme
Desenvolupament rural
Sports tourism
Hiking
Rural development
topic Turisme esportiu
Senderisme
Desenvolupament rural
Sports tourism
Hiking
Rural development
description In Spain, hiking is an activity that involves following paths, which may or may not be signposted, on foot, for sporting and cultural purposes. In the country as a whole, although with important regional variations, hiking has traditionally been linked to mountaineering and rambling clubs. However, at the beginning of the 1990s this activity became much more widely popular, reaching beyond the more limited sphere within which the pioneers of hiking in Spain had acted. Hiking stopped being just a sporting and cultural activity and also became a form of tourism and leisure, coinciding with the emergence and consolidation of what have become known as alternative forms of tourism. In this context of change, hiking tourism has gradually evolved over the years into a strategic option for development in many territories. This article presents the most important aspects of this transformation: the changes in the territorial model for the management of the paths on which the creation of hiking tourism products is based; the fact that in the design of routes more consideration is being given to the differential characteristics of tourist demand for hiking; the adaptation of the accommodation, restaurant facilities and the main specific services associated with it; and the emergence and engagement of new stakeholders in the processes of planning, distribution and communication of this activity.
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