Majorca's tourism cluster: The creation of an industrial district, 1919–36

Cirer-Costa, Joan Carles

doi:10.1080/00076791.2013.876532

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Majorca's tourism cluster: The creation of an industrial district, 1919–36

Cirer-Costa, Joan Carles·2014·Business History

DOI 10.1080/00076791.2013.876532

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The Balearic Islands today form the largest tourism cluster in the Mediterranean, an extensive industrial district whose origins date back more than a century. This article explores the key period during which the hotels and travel firms built up their relations of cooperation and competition which explain the subsequent dynamism of the island's tourist trade and its remarkable expansion in the second half of the twentieth century.

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Authors: Cirer-Costa, J. C.
Venue: Business History
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Published: 2014-02-17
Volume: 56
Issue: 8
Pages: 1243-1261
ISSN: 0007-6791 (ISSN-L)
1743-7938
DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2013.876532
OpenAlex: W2017120188
Cited by: 28
References: 42
Citations by year: 2025: 3 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 1
FWCI: 46.14
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: Business History (publishedVersion)
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Urbanism, Landscape, and Tourism Studies
Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Historical and socio-economic studies of Spain and related regions
Social Sciences › Development › Regional Development and Innovation
Keywords: tourism clusters, industrial districts, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, hotel industry, tourism development, interwar period, Mediterranean tourism

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