Maria Trinitat Rovira Soto

Universidad Rovira i Virgili | URV · Faculty of Tourism and Geography

This article explores the urban evolution of coastal tourist destinations. It is based on the analysis of the urban planning of three municipal districts in central Costa Daurada, Catalonia. It is devised as a case study and evaluates how both the practice of urban planning and the actual plans that have regulated their development and, in particul...

This paper discusses two recurring land use issues that are conventionally accepted when analyzing most of the Mediterranean mass coastal tourism destinations: the limited role of planning and the supposedly standardized nature of the resulting landscape. Based on a specific case study in the Catalan coastline, this paper presents analytical metric...

Dr. Trini Rovira-Soto is a postdoctoral researcher at Rovira i Virgili University, Spain, in the Research Group on Territorial Analysis and Tourism Studies (GRATET). Perhaps because she was born and lives in a Mediterranean coastal tourist town, she has always been fascinated by the forms of the urban landscape in these types of cities. After gradu...

The focus of this chapter is second homes as urban components of tourism destinations in the Mediterranean coast. In many places in the Mediterranean coast, second homes have created singular urban landscapes in permanent evolution. These landscapes have become part of the local identity of places. Moreover, the current adaptation of Mediterranean...

Protected areas (PAs) offer a wide range of well-being benefits closely linked to the objective of providing genuine experiences that intend to involve tourists across the physical, mental, social, emotional, spiritual, and environmental spheres. This article is part of a research project that aims to transfer knowledge about the well-being benefit...

Since the pioneering works of Lundgren (1974) and Coppock (1977), the academic interest in second homes includes topics such as housing, planning, leisure and tourism (Gallent and Tewdwr-Jones, 2000; Müller, 2004; Hall & Müller, 2004; Timothy, 2004) and their study includes economic, social and environmental dimensions (Müller, Hall & Keen, 2004; G...

This article explores the urban evolution of coastal tourist destinations. It is based on the analysis of the urban planning of three municipal districts in central Costa Daurada, Catalonia. It is devised as a case study and evaluates how both the practice of urban planning and the actual plans that have regulated their development and, in particul...

The purpouse of this research is to define a methodology for analyse the basic structure of second home landscape. This methodology had been applied in central Costa Daurada. The three hierarchical levels (patch, class and landscape) that the methodological Landscape Ecology proposes are the inspiration for the tourism urban landscape analysis. The...

In the mature tourist destinations of the Mediterranean coast, second homes have been, from the 60 ‘s, one of the main holiday´s accommodation. In the central Costa Daurada, in Catalonia, which is the geographical area of this study, 77% of buildings are not main homes and 39% of tourist arrivals choose this type of accommodation. This paper analy...

Los procesos de suburbanización identificados a partir de los años 70, se han traducido en una dinámica de dispersión urbana a finales del siglo X. La globalización ha provocado la introducción del “sprawl” (proceso de urbanización difusa) a la ciudad mediterránea, y ha conllevado la implantación de modelos de desarrollo insostenibles. La utilizaci...

El paisaje actual que presentan los espacios turísticos de masas del litoral se caracteriza por su condición urbana. Ahora bien, no se trata de una urbanidad convencional. Más allá de su estructura urbana, está su función turística y, por lo tanto, su condición de piezas de ciudad que se ponen al servicio de una demanda temporal y que, por otra par...