Summary - TST 19
TRANSPORTES, SERVICIOS Y TELECOMUNICACIONES
Margarita Vilar y Elvira Lindoso
El sector balneario gallego desde una perspectiva histórica (1780-1935)
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Key Words:
Leisure; Spas; Health; Tourism; Galicia; Spain.
[ Abstract ]
The major aim of this research is to analyze the origins and historical transformation of Galician spas (with mineral-medicinal water) within the broader context of the sector in Spain since the late Eighteenth Century until the Spanish Civil War by using new quantitative evidence. The analysis points out how Galicia was successfully to exploit its rich mineral and medicinal waters, and to reach a position of hegemony over the period under research. From a long-term perspective, the key elements to the success of these establishments came in the form of entrepreneurial incentives from local businessmen and politics, the institutional framework and the duality from the point of view of supply with two types of establishments: thermal villages that the social elites visited and popular spas with a long tradition in the region.
[ Abstract ]
The major aim of this research is to analyze the origins and historical transformation of Galician spas (with mineral-medicinal water) within the broader context of the sector in Spain since the late Eighteenth Century until the Spanish Civil War by using new quantitative evidence. The analysis points out how Galicia was successfully to exploit its rich mineral and medicinal waters, and to reach a position of hegemony over the period under research. From a long-term perspective, the key elements to the success of these establishments came in the form of entrepreneurial incentives from local businessmen and politics, the institutional framework and the duality from the point of view of supply with two types of establishments: thermal villages that the social elites visited and popular spas with a long tradition in the region.