Tourism in Emptied Spain

[EN] Every Autonomous Community in Spain has promoted nature tourism and rural tourism in villages as an economic solution that could replace traditional agro-livestock activities and halt emigration bleeding. However, the data analysis shows that many of these places have barely sparked the interes...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Somoza Medina, Xosé, Somoza Medina, Marta
Tipo de recurso: capítulo de libro
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Ajuntament de Barcelona
Repositorio:BULERIA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de León
OAI Identifier:oai:buleria.unileon.es:10612/17656
Acceso en línea:https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-39780-6_2
https://hdl.handle.net/10612/17656
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Geografía
Turismo
Rural tourism
Agrotourism
Return tourism
Emigration
Depopulation
Rural development
5312.90 Economía Sectorial: Turismo
5403 Geografía Humana
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Sumario:[EN] Every Autonomous Community in Spain has promoted nature tourism and rural tourism in villages as an economic solution that could replace traditional agro-livestock activities and halt emigration bleeding. However, the data analysis shows that many of these places have barely sparked the interest of potential visitors and that the return on investment is at least questionable. This chapter analyses the tourist supply and demand of Empty Spain, taking into account the sustainability in the process of transformation into a tourist destination and the territorial resilience of the abandoned places, underlining in this sense the strong ties of the former inhabitants, many times manifested in the so-called emigrant tourism.