Designing the seaside: Mass tourism in Portugal
- Autores: Susana Lobo, Ana Tostões, José Antonio Bandeirinha
- Localización: Territoris del turisme: l'imaginari turístic i la construcció del paisatge contemporani : actes / Nadia Fava (dir.), Marisa García Vergara (dir.), 2014, ISBN 978-84-92931-37-8, pág. 225
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Set aside from the second world conflict, the fascist-like regime of Oliveira Salazar would know how to survive after the war through a strategic policy of isolation that would keep Portugal apart from the changes that shaped the emergence of a new European welfare state. Only in the late 1960s would the Portuguese external relations be fully restored. The two main factors that contributed to this rapprochement were the increasing rates of emigration and the development of international mass tourism. Relying on the trilogy “sun, sand & sea”, Portugal would benefit from the Spanish tourism boom of this period, allowing for the same mistakes made in the urbanisation of Spain’s coastal areas. The entire Iberian coastline would be sold out to national and, in particular, international market interests giving place to a new spatial order. On the coast, the “Resort Mega-structure”, the “Holiday Village” and the “City of Tourism” testify to a typomorphological evolution in seaside architecture, announcing the disappearance of the “Beach Hotel” as the ultimate tourist infrastructure A programmatic update which mirrors the fast development of the tourism industry in Portugal and the progressive massification of the tourism phenomenon from the 1960s onwards.
