Touristic imagery and the construction of contemporary landscape

What is it about?

The substantial growth encountered in tourism clearly marks it as one of the most remarkable economic and social phenomena of not only the past century, but also our current one. While these dynamics have converted tourism into one of the principal driving forces behind economic and urban development, such mass tourism also poses a threat to regions’ natural and cultural resources.

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Why is it important?

Architects and urban planners have not been paying attention to the effects of mass tourism on architecture and urban planning. However, despite tourism, being a resilient sector in large national and post-industrial economies in this critical period of recession, the general demise of cultural and natural resources must be taken into account and its multiple effects should be studied.

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