Le commerce de détail dans une grande station touristique balnéaire espagnole : Benidorm

Abstract

Benidorm is a large touristic town and it's commercial equipment is different than in other cities. There is many more shops in a touristic town than in another one and 70% of the shops are « touristics ». Bars, restaurants, hotels are numerous as leasure shops. There is a large contrast between the concentrated and over equipment area of the old and central city where are the tourists and the modest and classical shops of the spanish borough. We can study the large influence that tourism has, on the commercial equipment of a town.

Is There an Urban Tourism?

“…de Groote, 1987;Vetter, 1985;Pearce 1981), restaurants (e.g. Bonnaine-Moerdijk, 1975;Smith, 1983), shopping (Werner, 1974;Dumas, 1982), or night-life (Burtenshaw et al1991) or be attempts, however doomed to incompleteness, at a comprehensive inventory for a particular city or group of cities (e.g. Maier.…”