<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Tourism development has been a particularly intense area of negotiation in the Spanish countryside since the 1990s because of its major role in public policies for the economic restructuring, the regionalisation of policy instruments and its own intersectoral nature. This leads us to examine how the coordination takes place within the actors engaged in the tourist development of Sierra de Albarracín. This research adopts an inductive approach to the social relations that underlie the construction of a tourism project territory. From the meeting between the methodology of the social network analysis and the analytical framework of the School of Proximity, the procedure presented here helps to understand the logics of territorial construction. Cooperation appears more fictitious than the policy instruments of governance envisage. Questioning both cooperative and conflictive proximities offers new clues for the evaluation of public policy instruments.</p></abstract>

Tourism development has been a particularly intense area of negotiation in the Spanish countryside since the 1990s because of its major role in public policies for the economic restructuring, the regionalisation of policy instruments and its own intersectoral nature. This leads us to examine how the coordination takes place within the actors engaged in the tourist development of Sierra de Albarracín. This research adopts an inductive approach to the social relations that underlie the construction of a tourism project territory. From the meeting between the methodology of the social network analysis and the analytical framework of the School of Proximity, the procedure presented here helps to understand the logics of territorial construction. Cooperation appears more fictitious than the policy instruments of governance envisage. Questioning both cooperative and conflictive proximities offers new clues for the evaluation of public policy instruments.

The Illusion of Proximity in Territorial Construction. An Approach to Tourism Development Via Social Networks in Sierra De Albarracín (Spain)

Professeur des universités, UMR 5281 Art-Dev,

European Countryside

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Tourism development has been a particularly intense area of negotiation in the Spanish countryside since the 1990s because of its major role in public policies...

The Illusion of Proximity in Territorial Construction. An Approach to Tourism Development Via Social Networks in Sierra De Albarracín (Spain)

Published Online: Oct 16, 2018

Page range: 442 - 461

Received: Sep 14, 2017

Accepted: Feb 20, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/euco-2018-0025

Keywords
territorial governance, proximity, LEADER, tourism in rural areas, social network analysis, Sierra de Albarracín (Spain)

© 2018 Claudia Yubero et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

The Illusion of Proximity in Territorial Construction. An Approach to Tourism Development Via Social Networks in Sierra De Albarracín (Spain)

Published Online: Oct 16, 2018

Page range: 442 - 461

Received: Sep 14, 2017

Accepted: Feb 20, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/euco-2018-0025

Keywordsterritorial governance, proximity, LEADER, tourism in rural areas, social network analysis, Sierra de Albarracín (Spain)

© 2018 Claudia Yubero et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
territorial governance, proximity, LEADER, tourism in rural areas, social network analysis, Sierra de Albarracín (Spain)