Territorial governance and power relations in tourist areas: the conflicts derived from the public policies of renewal of consolidated tourist destinations on the coast

Abstract

The actions and processes of renewal are revealed as key to the competitive repositioning of the consolidated tourist areas. However, its implementation generates conflicts. This is due to divergent interests, objectives and logics of operation of the public and private actors. The objective of this paper is to analyze the conflict derived with the strategy of public policy of the tourist destination Islas Canarias (Spain) to link the authorization of the construction of new tourist establishments to the renovation of existing ones. The content analysis or correlate approach has been chosen, so that the subject of research observation has been the process itself and its various temporal moments. It delves in the structural elements that have shaped the conflict (causes, Components, target actors and or effects).