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Title: Cultural events as tourism supply in coastal Catalan resorts
Author: González-Reverté, Francesc  
Miralbell Izard, Oriol
Citation: González, F. & Miralbell, O. (2009) "Cultural events as tourism supply in Catalan coastal resorts (pre-print)". Congrés: Researching Coastal and Resort Destination Management: Cultures and Histories of Tourism. Girona, Universitat de Girona i Leeds university.
Abstract: During the last three decades, the number of tourism events has been growing in Catalan coastal resorts because of the recover of Catalan cultural traditions, festivals and folklore, and also because of tourism growth. Catalan tourism resorts use events as catalysers for new supply and as a mean to differentiate and singularize themselves from their competitors. The tourism potential of cultural events is undeniable but there are some problems that prevent a more effective impact as economic and regional development agents. This paper reflects some discussions and conclusions obtained from the analysis of 264 valid responses of a survey made to different Catalan event organizers in 2008 and 2009. We describe and characterize cultural event supply in coastal resorts in order to study the events tourism importance, their capacity to generate and spread economic development, and their managerial model. The analysis is made in a geographical basis, comparing the results of the territorial organization of events of the city of Barcelona, coastal and inland municipalities. Finally some considerations about event regional tourism policy and tourism development are discussed.
Keywords: Events
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Issue Date: 1-Jan-2009
Publication license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/  
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