Menorca: From the third tourism boom to the economic crisis and the role of the Insular Territorial Plan (DOI: 10.2436/20.3000.02.47)

Authors

  • Joan Carles Llurdés-Coit Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
  • Maria Torres-Bagur Universitat de Girona

Keywords:

Menorca, tourism, Insular Territorial Plan, tourism boom, urbanisation, crisis

Abstract

Territories and tourist destinations have experienced a large-scale process of evolution and transformation in recent decades. This period has witnessed extremely important morphological and structural changes, which have also affected the island of Menorca. Increasing numbers of tourists, approval of the Insular Territorial Plan, the subsequent economic crisis and end of the real estate bubble are the main factors conditioning the evolution of Menorca in the past few decades. This paper analyses these three factors in order to study the main transformations that have occurred on Menorca and how they have come to shape the territory today.

Key words: Menorca, tourism, Insular Territorial Plan, tourism boom, urbanisation, crisis.

Original source: Treballs de la Societat Catalana de Geografia, 79: 39-67 (2015)

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Published

2019-11-11

Issue

No. 9 (2019)

Section

Geography

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