Territorio y turismo en la Costa Cálida. Del consumo voraz al tsunami no costero, 1960-2020. Evolución y dinámicas de las formas del turismo en la Región de Murcia

The construction of the Mediterranean coast in Spain has been linked to the economic development of the country based on tourism called ‘of sun and beach’. The transformation of the spaces demanded for this tourism, the aging of the oldest nodes and the effects of the real estate bubble on the coast have put the spotlight on the forms of this tourist space. The urban projects of the coastal tourism space have their own morphological characteristics, which differentiate them from other urban fabrics. In this work the metamorphosis of the urban forms used in the tourist nodes of the coast of the Region of Murcia is analysed and the characteristics of the different territorial environments are exposed, as a consequence of their fragmented construction. Finally, the burdens on the territory of the tourist space are compared as a tool to test the hypothesis that these projects have progressively lost their relationship with the landscape, at the same time that they cause a strong consumption of their resources. For this, different data have been used, mainly cadastral cartography and aerial orthophotos. As a result, it has been possible to quantify representative variables of the load on the territory, with 546 m2 of urbanized surface per linear meter of beach and 222 m2 of built surface.