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Tourism XXL, the European Megalopolis
The first International Symposium that deals with an integral form of development for the Spanish Mediterranean coast.
| What | Development Strategies Tourism Superstars Coastal Development |
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| When |
2007-07-19 00:00
to 2007-07-21 00:00 |
| Where | Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB) |
| Contact Name | Carla Athayde |
| Contact Email | athayde@intelligentcoast.es |
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Spain is experiencing the fastest process of growing urban concentrations of the whole own history. Its Mediterranean coast today concentrates 44% of the population and 42% of the GDP. 17 million inhabitants are concentrated only along the coastal provinces on the Mediterranean areas, number that -according to the National Institute of Statistic (INE)- will rise to 21 million in 2020. For that year, it is foreseen that Spain will receive 18 million tourists. Facing the speed of development and the high level of concentration comparable to Shangai, Rio de Janeiro or Tokyo, the Spanish Mediterranean coast has become the first European Megalopolis. Globalization, global warming, resources optimization, urban-planning development, aerial and terrestrial mobility and new phenomena that affect tourist development along our coast will be central subjects of the Symposium that invites national and international leaders from the economic and political field as from the cultural or technical environment.
Among the distinguished speakers: Manuel Delanda, Carlos Ferrater, Raimon Martínez Fraile, José Miguel Iribas, Michael Houellebecq, Rem Koolhaas, Scott Lash, Faustino G. Marquéz, Arnaldo Muñóz, Javier Gómez Navarro, Juan Palop, Jeremy Rifkin, George Ritzer, Jordi Robinat, Miguel Ruano, Salvador Rueda, Juan Antonio Sánchez, Edward W. Soja, Federico Soriano, Andreu Ulied, Juan Lopez de Uralde, José L. Zoreda.
The International Symposium is produced by Intelligent Coast Cultural Association www.intelligentcoast.es, which aims at producing an analytical overview and proposals of new strategies and criteria for coastal development related to the phenomenon of tourism. Beside this International Symposium, the Association leads the Master Program Intelligent Coast, New Tourist Strategies, New Territorial Structures made with the Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya www.fundacio.upc.edu, and supported by iMage www.image-web.org and ARCH'IT www.architettura.it. Tourism XXL, the European Megalopolis is sponsored by the Regional Government of Catalonia (Generalitat de Catalunya) and supported by the European Commission, among others. The event is accompanied by a series of debates and conferences that, under the name Intelligent Coast Debates, gather the intervention of important experts at a national and international level.