Tourist seasonality and coastal landscape. A spatiotemporal ethnography of the seaside city of Villa Gesell
This article aims to reflect on the characteristics and issues of coastal cities that rely on summer tourism centered around sun and beach services. Specifically, it focuses on understanding the effects of the seasonality of economic activity on the inhabited landscape. To do so, it takes a case stu...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Museo de Antropología
2024
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/antropologia/article/view/43063 |
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| Sumario: | This article aims to reflect on the characteristics and issues of coastal cities that rely on summer tourism centered around sun and beach services. Specifically, it focuses on understanding the effects of the seasonality of economic activity on the inhabited landscape. To do so, it takes a case study: the city of Villa Gesell located on the Atlantic corridor of the province of Buenos Aires in Argentina. Since its foundation in the thirties, this city has exploited its scenic resources to live exclusively from the tourist services it offers to Argentine vacationers. With forty thousand permanent residents, Villa Gesell ranks as the second summer destination in the country and receives around one and a half million tourists between December and March. Applying an etnographical approach that considers spatial and temporal movements, the research seeks to make its main contributions regarding the historical, economic, cultural, urban, and material particularities of the Atlantic seaside cities in the province of Buenos Aires. |
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