Menorca: from the third tourist boom to the economic crisis and the role of the Insular Territorial Plan Authors Joan Carles Llurdés-Coit Departament de Geografia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Maria Torres-Bagur Departament de Geografia Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Keywords: Menorca, tourism, Insular Territorial Plan, tourist boom, urbanization, crisis. Abstract The territories and tourist destinations have experienced a process of evolution and transformation of large scale in recent decades. The morphological and structural changes experienced during this period are very important in this process, which also affected the Island of Menorca. Increasing number of tourists, with the support of the Insular Territorial Plan and the effects of the economic crisis, and the end of the real estate bubble, are the main elements that have conditioned the evolution of Menorca in last few decades. This paper analyses these three elements in order to study the changes that have occurred in Menorca, and how they have come to determine the territory that we have nowadays.Key words: Menorca, tourism, Insular Territorial Plan, tourist boom, urbanization, crisis. Author Biography Joan Carles Llurdés-Coit, Departament de Geografia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Downloads PDF (Català) How to Cite Llurdés-Coit, J. C., & Torres-Bagur, M. (2015). Menorca: from the third tourist boom to the economic crisis and the role of the Insular Territorial Plan. Treballs De La Societat Catalana De Geografia, (79), 39–67. Retrieved from https://revistes.iec.cat/index.php/TSCG/article/view/138055 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Issue No. 79: juny 2015 Section Articles License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.On submitting articles for publication to the journal Treballs de la Societat Catalana de Geografia, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Catalan Society of Geography (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Treballs de la Societat Catalana de Geografia.Authors answer to Catalan Society of Geography for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.Catalan Society of Geography declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.Treballs de la Societat Catalana de Geografia is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.
