From environmental disaster to Tourist-Free tourism context: Transformation of practices and discourses in Portmán (Region of Murcia, Spain)

Since the 1970s Portmán, a small town on the coast of Murcia, has been surrounded by a growing tourism sector. While much of Murcia’s coastline was being developed for tourism purposes, Portmán made its living from mining. But the town’s mining industry began to decline in the 1980s and finally disappeared in 1991, leaving behind a devastated environmental and social landscape; the bay that the town overlooks had been completely filled with mining waste. This paper enquires at the changes in the practices and discourses around tourism development, as displayed by the community’s interest groups. Desde la década de 1970, Portmán, un pueblo minero de la costa de Murcia, vio desarrollarse el turismo de sol y playa en el resto del litoral, mientras su economía seguía basada en la minería. Sin embargo, tras un lento declinar en los años 80, la actividad minera desapareció en 1991, dejando un paisaje medioambiental y social tremendamente impactado, en el que destaca la desaparición de la bahía frente al pueblo, rellena de escorias mineras. Este artículo indaga en los cambios en las prácticas y discursos sobre el desarrollo turístico, tal y como los muestran los grupos de interés comunitarios.

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Revista Murciana de Antropología
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2024-12-23
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https://doi.org/10.6018/rmu.586851
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Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
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From environmental disaster to Tourist-Free tourism context: Transformation of practices and discourses in Portmán (Region of Murcia, Spain)

Antonio Miguel Nogués Pedregal, Raúl Travé Molero, Daniel Carmona Zubiri
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From environmental disaster to Tourist-Free tourism context: Transformation of practices and discourses in Portmán (Region of Murcia, Spain)

Antonio Miguel Nogués Pedregal, Raúl Travé Molero, Daniel Carmona Zubiri
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Since the 1970s Portmán, a small town on the coast of Murcia, has been surrounded by a growing tourism sector. While much of Murcia’s coastline was being developed for tourism purposes, Portmán made its living from mining. But the town’s mining industry began to decline in the 1980s and finally disappeared in 1991, leaving behind a devastated environmental and social landscape; the bay that the town overlooks had been completely filled with mining waste. This paper enquires at the changes in the practices and discourses around tourism development, as displayed by the community’s interest groups. Desde la década de 1970, Portmán, un pueblo minero de la costa de Murcia, vio desarrollarse el turismo de sol y playa en el resto del litoral, mientras su economía seguía basada en la minería. Sin embargo, tras un lento declinar en los años 80, la actividad minera desapareció en 1991, dejando un paisaje medioambiental y social tremendamente impactado, en el que destaca la desaparición de la bahía frente al pueblo, rellena de escorias mineras. Este artículo indaga en los cambios en las prácticas y discursos sobre el desarrollo turístico, tal y como los muestran los grupos de interés comunitarios.

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