La consommation d'espace par le tourisme sur le littoral andalou : les centres d'intérêt touristique national

Abstract

The tourist use of space along the Andalusian coast : the centres of National Tourist Interest. A dominant characteristic of recent tourist development in Spain has been the enormous amount of space used up especially along the coastline and notably along the Andalusian coast. In recent decades the tourist complexes along the coast have assumed different forms from the point of view of size, quality and legal status. All of them have displayed marked indifference to questions of territorial balance. The legal framework behind the centres of national tourist interest clearly displays this lack of consideration for the way space is used. Its main priority has been the encouragement of tourist development by handing over to the private sector the choice of localisation of new establishments as well as that of their size and internal organisation. This study deals with the C.N.T.I. (C.I.T.N.) along the Andalusian coast, their localisation, the pre-existing environmental conditions, the forms taken by development and their relations with pre-existing property and finally their internal organisation. We also examine the way these projects have been carried out and we observe a considerable discrepancy, for several reasons, between the initial projects and their final concrete forms. The legal framework of the C.I.T.N. not only fails to inject order into the tourist chaos of the Andalusian coast but also complicates the situation even further by designating excessive amounts of land for urbanization compared to demand thus creating numerous conflicts whith pre-existing practices and activities in these areas.