Evaluation of the Reception Capacity of a Certain Area Regarding Tourist Housing, Addressing Sustainable-Tourism Criteria

Abstract

The emergence of new 2.0 net collaborative economies has brought an increase in the number of tourists, changing the paradigm of the tourist-housing sector in the main cities around the world. This has directly impacted inhabitants and land-use planning, and there is no general agreement yet between different public and private agents on how to deal with the problem. In this document, a model supported by scientific approaches is presented to assist in planning for sustainable land use through assessing its reception capacity to host tourist housing. The area of study is a medium-sized city in Spain with four UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The methodology is based on the application of the multicriteria decision paradigm in the geographical information systems’ field to deal with complex problems with several alternatives and various criteria to be evaluated. As a result, we obtained a classification of every part of the study area, depending on the reception capacity of the considered uses. The main conclusion is that tourist housing must be regulated, although its effects cannot be generalized, since specific analysis for every neighborhood in a territory is needed.

Georoutes as a Basis for Territorial Development of the Pacific Coast of South America: a Case Study

“…Reception capacity is “an area’s degree of adequacy or capacity for a certain activity, bearing in mind the effects of that activity on the environment” (Gómez Orea 2008 ; Gómez Orea and Gómez Villarino 2013 ), and it includes factors such as degree of suitability, land use, fragility, and potentiality. In summary, reception capacity assessment will determine the optimal land use according to its sustainability to know the impact of the activities on the different geological and landscape characteristics (Galacho Jiménez and Arrebola Castaño 2013 ; Fernández Gallardo et al 2019 ).…”

Multicriteria Decision Making in Sustainable Tourism and Low-Carbon Tourism Research

“…AHP and SWOT were also applied by Ayuni and Priyana (2019) to conduct an assessment in the national park, measuring the environmental and resource-carrying capacity at Mount Rinjani, Indonesia. Meanwhile, in contrast to the previous four articles, Gallardo et al (2019) assessed tourist-housing reception capacity for sustainable landscape use in urban areas in Spain.…”

Evolutionary Relationship between Tourism and Real Estate: Evidence and Research Trends

“…For example, in coastal tourist areas, carbon emissions from different real estate products affect the tourism resources in the area, which in turn causes damage to these resources, and this constitutes an obstacle to achieving the principles of sustainability in the tourism sector. For this reason, many tourism buildings are seeking to obtain an LEED certificate (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) in order to be classified as green buildings; this is one of the pillars of the green tourism destinations concept [24,25]. On the other hand, the various tourism development policies and strategies, in turn, affect the concept of sustainability in real estate.…”

“…On the other hand, the various tourism development policies and strategies, in turn, affect the concept of sustainability in real estate. For example, the failure of establishing a legal framework for the transformations in land uses and real estate uses that accompany the different tourism development policies may affect the sustainability of real estate in terms of unplanned changes in its prices and material value, as well as the waste of many different investments; this is inconsistent with the principles of achieving sustainability for real estate products [24].…”