Galán, Juan José; Martín, Ángel; Ruíz, Josefina e Mandly, Antonio (1977). Costa del sol. Retrato de unos colonizados. Madrid: Campo Abierto ediciones

Xerardo Pereiro Pérez

doi:10.25145/j.pasos.2026.24.038

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Xerardo Pereiro Pérez UNIVERSIDADE DE TRÁS-OS-MONTES E ALTO DOURO (UTAD) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6298-5701

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https://doi.org/10.25145/j.pasos.2026.24.038

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Costa del Sol, tourism, a critical view of tourism, tourist colonisation

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In this review I present a revisitation and rereading of one of the most important sociological and anthropological books on tourism in Spain in 1970. Following the protests against tourism in Spain this past summer of 2024, I reflect in dialogue with the book on the need to look critically and calmly at the past of the history of Spanish tourism, especially in the Mediterranean, in order to better think about the current situation and what we want or can build in terms of tourism in the future.

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Xerardo Pereiro Pérez, UNIVERSIDADE DE TRÁS-OS-MONTES E ALTO DOURO (UTAD)

Xerardo Pereiro (University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro –UTAD, CETRAD – Vila Real – Portugal. Email <xperez@utad.pt> ) holds a European PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia – Spain) and another International PhD in Tourism from the University of La Laguna (Canarias - Spain). He is associated professor with habilitation (tenure) of anthropology (by ISCTE- Lisbon) and cultural tourism in UTAD (Portugal). He conducts research about anthropology of tourism and cultural heritage in CETRAD (Centre for Transdiciplinary Development Studies, https://www.cetrad.utad.pt/) of UTAD. He has done fieldwork research in Asturias and Galicia (Spain), Portugal and Panama –about indigenous guna tourism-. He is the Head of Tourism First Degree Course of UTAD, and was visitor teacher in the universities of Vigo, Coruña, Santiago de Compostela, Pablo Olavide (Seville), Salamanca, Panamá, “Universidade Nova de Lisboa”, Costa Rica, UNICAMP (Brazil) and others. He was awarded with 1994 Vicente Risco Award of Social Anthropology and Social Sciences, 2007 FITUR in research tourism and 2011 Sol-Meliá - University of Balears Islands Awards for Tourism Research. Nowadays is doing research on Portuguese Inside Way of Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela and about Tourism in the Douro Region. He is member of Editorial Board of International Journal of Tourism and Cultural Heritage – Pasos (http://www.pasosonline.org/en/). ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6298-5701

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