The dark side is checking what some tourism in Spain really looks like.
The average tourist will be poorly served because employment in the tourist sector is temporary, unstable and precarious. In other words, banana republican tourism in today's Spain narrows the Spanish employees down to people of a banana Republic.
The dark is how Spanish tourism has been designed as:
- a monopoly (sex, sand and sun). Even though, this is slowly changing and several surveys show that nowadays sss has gone down a second choice after culture.
- Cheap product, in the worst sense of the word.
- Monoculture.
The dark is all the effects from this can be seen on tourist areas and the fact that this is expected to be a substitute for industrial development and the diversification of the economy. While this is expected, who really profits from mass tourism in Spain? Foreing airlines, foreign travel's agents and foreign tour operators.
To sum up, a fake monoculture is overwhelmingly sold to tourists in a plastic/cement world, which doesnt have anything to do with the Spanish culture. The excess leads to bad service and poor quality. The product is monothematic, and stereotypically adjusted to what the tourists expect to see: sangría (which nobody drinks on a daily basis, only festivals, etc), flamenco, paella, bla bla bla.
I have never understood why people prefer Magaluf over Burgos, for example.
Burgos
It is an example of a pretty, clean, well organized city. As most Spanish cities, it is also historical with polite locals (not bothered by tourists peeing and vomiting around them) no drunks, no excess, and most importantly quintessentially Spanish too. It is just one of many examples of real Spanish cities not sold to the clichés that mass tourism requires.
Or Salamanca
Or Oviedo
Galicia
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