2015-2017

PROJECT TITLE:

The Transformative Effects of Global Mobility Patterns in Tourism Destination Evolution. Plan Nacional de I+D+i 2013-2016. Project CSO CSO2014-51785-R.

SUMMARY:

The MOVETUR project aims to develop an innovative analytical, conceptual and methodological framework for analysing how tourism destinations are transformed by the multiple mobilities inherent in contemporary societies, as well as understanding the effects of these mobilities on the development, attractiveness and inter-place / urban competition of places of different scales. 

The project stems from the general hypothesis that human mobilities at different scales, along with their interconnections and links to other physical and immaterial mobilities, are catalytic factors in processes of change in tourism destinations. Such transformations are produced not only from within urban structures, environmental conditions and technologies but also in institutional, socioeconomic, cognitive and cultural domains, generating new information, images, perceptions and discourses of places, while provoking stakeholder and agency-based decision-making processes and triggering tensions, solutions and redistribution dynamics that in turn shape the evolutionary trajectory of destinations in terms of path plasticity effects.

 

2010-2014

PROJECT TITLE:

Tourism, Residential Mobility and Territorial Copetitiveness (GLOBALTUR). Plan Nacional de I+D+i 2008-2011. Project CSO 2011-23004.

SUMMARY:

This research project’s proposed goal is to study the role of mature tourism coastal destinations as spaces where social innovation, territorial competitiveness and the development of global responsible policies are fostered. The project seeks to analyze the effects of residential mobility associated with tourism activity and flows on the competitiveness of destinations, to evaluate the role of policies on their development dynamics and to study the responses that they elicit face to the challenges of global change. The basic hypothesis of the project assumes that the increasing transformation of population mobility – and the multiplication of its forms – has spurred the development of complex urban structures, the current mature tourism destinations, and of new demographic and economic processes that led to the emergence of new social, territorial and environmental conflicts.

This Project aims to analyse the value of consolidated coastal tourism destinations as confluence points for specific social groups – be they tourists or residents – and to study to which extent and within which limits these new Mobilities can configure such destinations as spaces and places that catalyse new economic and social opportunities in the framework of globalisation.

 

2009-2011

PROJECT TITLE:

Territorial innovation and development models in coastal tourist destinations. Analysis at different spatial scales (INNOVATUR). CSO2008-01699.

SUMMARY:

The goal of this project is to study the models of territorial development brought about by the dynamics of tourism in the Mediterranean coasts from the perspective of innovation, and regional competitiveness. The ambition is to evaluate the reach and limitations of tourism not only as a factor of change but also as a catalyst of opportunities for regions in a context of economic globalisation. With this aim, a research programme at different scales is designed, including, among others, the use of territorial analysis tools such as Geographical Information Systems (GIS), field work techniques, and statistical data elaboration.

The main contributions expected from this project are (1) to evaluate the processes of transformation, repositioning and evolution of different types of coastal tourist destinations within the context of the change of the Spanish model; (2) to link the analysis of tourist destinations in the Spanish Mediterranean coast with research on the generation of urban space, spatial analysis, and the valorisation of anthropic landscapes; (3) to discuss the role of tourist destinations as landscapes for social innovation, creative expression, and regional competitiveness and (4) to propose principles, tools and useful initiatives to public administrations and economic agents.

 

2006-2008

PROJECT TITLE:

Assessment of the effects of changes in the spanish tourist model over mature coastal resorts (LITORALTUR). SEJ2005-05677.

SUMMARY:

The aim of this project is to study the impact of the changing pattern of the Spanish tourism development over the mature coastal resorts on the Mediterranean area. We are particulary interested into the analysis of the effects over the land use mattets and changes in the characteristics of the tourist demand. We plan an analysis at many scales using Geographical Information Systems.

The main outcomes that we can await from the project are: (1) to explain the restructuring processes in tourism destinations within the frame of the changing model of the activity in Spain; (2) to link the analysis of the changes in the Mediterranean Spanish resorts with the main issues in this field at the international level; (3) to plan a system analysis at many scales; (4) to know the significance and the differential effects of the policies over the reestructuring of tourism destinations; (5) to propose useful principles, tools and actions for the government and the private sector and (6) to base GIS methodologies to improve the planning and management systems of tourism destinations.

 

2002-2005

PROJECT TITLE:

Assessment of the spatial effects of the restructuring polices in mature costal resorts. Analysis of the Spanish Mediterranean coast (LITORALMED). BSO2001-0758

SUMMARY:

The aim of this project is the assessment of the spatial effects of the implementation of restructuring policies in mute coastal resorts on the Spanish Mediterranean coastal area. We mean to analyze the scope of the changing tourism model in this type of destinations and the rapid transformation of the activity on their spatial structure and the spread of tourist facilities over the territory. We plan an analysis at many scale using Geographical Information Systems.

The main outcomes that we can await from the project are: (1) to draw explanation models to understand restructuring processes in tourism destinations; (2) to link the analysis of the changes in the Mediterranean Spanish resorts with the main issues in this field at the international level; (3) to plan a system analysis at many scales; (4) to know the significance and the differential effects of the polices over the restructuring of tourism destinations; (5) to propose useful principles, tools and actions for the government and the private sector and (6) to base GIS methodologies to improve the planning and management systems of tourism destination.he