La actividad crucerística para el desarrollo socioterritorial de destinos turísticos españoles

Zusammenfassung

Cruising activity has not stopped growing around the world and, especially, in Spain. The vast majority of Spanish ports have tried, with greater or less success, to attract cruise ships to their facilities. From the point of view of socio-territorial development, the impacts go far beyond the port facilities and cover the entire tourist destination. The success of the activity depends closely on its management by all stakeholders involved. From the point of view of public administrations, it is the case of the Port Administrations and the Town Councils of the destinations, in addition to the Autonomous Communities involved. Depending on the good tuning between administrations, or its absence, the results in the Spanish cruise ports are very different. This communication is the result of a UCM-Banco Santander research project carried out in different Spanish destinations that have shown very diverse dynamics: Barcelona, Cartagena, Malaga, Seville, Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Vigo. In all cases, different public stakeholders, which intervene directly in the activity of ports and destinations with disparate success, have been interviewed. As a preliminary result, it can be commented that the success, or its absence, depends closely on the interrelation between the different stakeholders and their will to support, or not, the activity. An activity that is a clear source of employment and development in many destinations with limited accessibility and tourist activity, if it were not for the cruise one. The different ports and destinations analysed show very different realities, although they all have the will to attract a greater number of cruises, an indicator of an undoubted contribution to their socio-territorial development.