Identificador: imarina:5144150
Autores: Sanz Ibañez, Cinta; Anton Clavé, Salvador
Resumen:
This chapter identifies and explores the notion of moments as a possible lens through which to understand more clearly the processes underlying destinations’ evolutionary change. This notion – which allows the building of an exploratory conceptual framework – relates to the different ways in which local destinations evolve according to the occurrence of specific inflection points at which a given evolutionary trajectory of a destination shifts in direction. Furthermore, this moments lens permits analysis of the evolution of tourism destinations as places, rather than focusing on the evolution of tourism in destinations, going beyond the domain of traditional lifecycle-based models. This framework derives from the path metaphor in evolutionary economic geography – particularly in relation to the ideas of path dependence, path creation and path plasticity – and is linked to recent developments in urban social geography such as the cultural political economy approach. The various possible dimensions of moments in which destinations’ paths are forced to shift in another direction – i.e. pre-moment scapes, triggers, impacts and post- 2 moment scapes – are examined, as are the possible discourses that might surround these shifts in real-world tourism evolution situations. To illustrate the scope and potential of the moments conceptual framework for tourism evolutionary destination studies, we apply it to a well-documented case study of a major Mediterranean coastal theme park development – PortAventura – situated on Catalonia's Costa Daurada. This case suggests that a focus on selective moments is useful in understanding how change is produced instead of only evaluating the end results of path dependence, path creation or path plasticity. In conclusion, the
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