Fonte: Cuadernos de Turismo; No. 47 (2021): Enero - Junio; 103-130
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Resumo: The aim of this paper is to discuss the role and the impact of tourism in Argentina´s and thus Latin America´s coastal urban development processes. Hence, groups of cities with different tourism dynamics are identified according to their demographic and economic changes and continuities during the period 2001-2010.
The results allow us to understand in a contextualized way the nature and tourist and urban functionality of the different cities in the littoral of Buenos Aires. Thus, six groups of cities have been identified according to the processes of change that tourism has caused in them and the diversity, complexity and dynamism that each type of cluster presents according to its particular characteristics has been evidenced. All this has allowed to visualize the diversity of destinations that exist in the littoral of the province according to its particular urban situation and its recent tourist evolution.
Finally, empirical evidence is offered that supports the conception that tourism not only has differential effects on urbanization processes, but especially taking into account local circumstances, generates specific dynamics at the local level that must be explained from the knowledge of the economic reality and the identity of each place.
