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Las Rutas e Itinerarios Turístico-Culturales en los Portales Oficiales de Turismo de las Comunidades Autónomas Españolas

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Manuel Calderón-Puerta, Diego, Arcila-Garrido, Manuel Luis, López-Sánchez, José Antonio·2018·Revista de Estudios Andaluces

Abstract

In the last decades, cultural tourism has become an alternative to other tourist typologies, since a more complementary offer is necessary. This expansion of culture as a tourism product has led to the proliferation of routes and tourist-cultural itineraries, promoted by regional, national and international organizations. These tourist realities have generated a multitude of definitions by organisms and authors, giving rise to a debate on two concepts that although they share similarities can be considered different. In the diffusion, creation and recognition of routes and itineraries, the different Spanish autonomous governments play a fundamental role. In this sense, through the creation of official websites, the Autonomous Communities try to publicize their culture and their tourism products. On the one hand, the objective of this work is to analyze the concepts of cultural tourism route and itinerary, on the other hand the dissemination of tourist routes and the treatment of itineraries by the Autonomous Communities in their official portals will be studied.

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TL;DR

The paper conceptually distinguishes tourist routes from cultural itineraries and then examines how Spain’s autonomous community tourism portals present these products. It finds widespread terminological confusion and limited use of European cultural itineraries, despite routes and itineraries being a fundamental part of official cultural tourism offers.

Key findings

  • Conceptually, routes are tourism products/inventions with a subjective, instrumental character, while cultural itineraries are historically developed paths responding to human needs and have patrimonial value in the route itself (Table 1).
  • In the official portals, routes and itineraries are confused in most autonomous communities, except Galicia, Asturias, and Navarra (17.6% of the total sample).
  • European cultural itineraries are offered in 13 of 15 autonomous communities (86.6% of the sample), but only 3 of the 22 European cultural itineraries declared in Spain—Camino de Santiago, Ruta de Carlos V, and El Legado Andalusí—appear in official portals. The Camino de Santiago appears in all communities it crosses except Andalucía and Extremadura.
  • Among route typologies, geographic routes are most abundant (76.4%), followed by ethnographic (52.9%), artistic (29.4%), and religious (23.5%) routes; classification is not standardized across portals.

Methods

  • Conceptual analysis of definitions from the RAE, authors, and international bodies (Council of Europe 2002, ICOMOS 2008, MERCOSUR 2009), summarized in a comparative table of routes versus cultural itineraries.
  • Empirical review of the official tourism portals of the Spanish autonomous communities, with objectives including identifying available information, verifying the offer of routes and itineraries, checking whether the concepts are distinguished, and identifying commercial information.
  • For European cultural itineraries, the study examined the official list and compared it with portal content, excluding Canarias and Baleares because no cultural itineraries are declared in those territories; route classifications on the websites were also crossed with a proposed route model.

Limitations

  • The paper states that “some weaknesses detected in the analysis” exist but does not enumerate them.
  • It states that if the study had been carried out by attending to existing routes rather than typologies, the results would differ and could include communities that do not offer route typologies.
  • Evident from the text: the analysis relies on website content and official listings at the time of study, with no user testing or longitudinal verification reported.

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Crossref · 10.12795/rea.2018.i35.05

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  • It may state two separate claims as one. 28
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  • The paper relies on this without support.

    Los conceptos de ruta e itinerario turístico-cultural se confunden con frecuencia.

    “Es frecuente que los conceptos de ruta e itinerarios turísticos culturales se confundan, aunque existan notables diferencias entre ambas realidades.”
  • The paper relies on this without support.

    La confusión entre rutas e itinerarios turístico-culturales se produce a partir de la década de 1990.

    “Se puede establecer que dicha confusión se produce a partir de la década de 1990, cuando los itinerarios comienzan a ser reconocidos y se hace hincapié en conocer los elementos diferenciadores entre las rutas y los itinerarios culturales.”
  • The paper relies on this without support.

    En la actualidad no hay una definición comúnmente aceptada de ruta turística.

    “no obstante, en la actualidad no hay una definición comúnmente aceptada de ruta turística.”
  • The paper relies on this without support.

    El diseño de una ruta turística y el reconocimiento de los itinerarios culturales aumentan los beneficios y diversifican la oferta turística de una región.

    “El diseño de una ruta turística y el reconocimiento de los itinerarios culturales pretende intervenir en el sector turístico de manera que, mediante la oferta de un producto de calidad, se aumenten los beneficios y se diversifique la oferta turística de una determinada región.”
  • The paper relies on this without support.

    The official tourism websites of the Spanish autonomous communities accurately reflect the institutional promotion and conceptualization of routes and itineraries.

    “De la aplicación de la metodología antes expuesta, en todas las páginas web de los portales de turismo de las Comunidades Autónomas, se han obtenido una serie de resultados que se expondrán en las siguientes páginas y que pueden resumirse en el gráfico 1.”
  • The paper relies on this without support.

    Some itineraries are of recent creation and have an instrumental character, while others are consolidated and have their own historical layout.

    “Debemos tener en cuenta que, mientras que algunos itinerarios son de reciente creación (Ruta de los Cementerios o la Ruta de los Fenicios) y tienen un carácter instrumental, otros están consolidados y cuentan con un trazado histórico propio (Camino de Santiago o la Vía de la Plata).”
  • The paper relies on this without support.

    El turismo cultural aporta ventajas al sector: desestacionalización de la demanda, perfil socioeconómico elevado de los usuarios, impulso de la economía local sostenible y bajo impacto ambiental.

    “Estas ventajas se resumen en desestacionalización de la demanda, perfil socio económico elevado de los usuarios, impulso de la economía local sostenible y su bajo impacto ambiental.”
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  1. Revista de Estudios Andaluces, núm. 35 (2018) pp. 123-145. e-ISSN: 2340-2776 http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/rea.2018.i35.05 Esta obra se distribuye con la licencia Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial- SinObraDerivada 4.0 Internacional 143
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  4. Revista de Estudios Andaluces, núm. 35 (2018) pp. 123-145. e-ISSN: 2340-2776 http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/rea.2018.i35.05 Esta obra se distribuye con la licencia Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial- SinObraDerivada 4.0 Internacional 145

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Metadata

Authors
Manuel Calderón-Puerta, D., Arcila-Garrido, M. L., & López-Sánchez, J. A.
Venue
Revista de Estudios Andaluces
Published
2018
Issue
35
Pages
123-145
ISSN
  • 0212-8594 (ISSN-L)
  • 2340-2776
OpenAlex
W2789367300
Cited by
19
References
20
Citations by year
2025: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1
FWCI
10.23
Type
journal article
Language
es
Open access
Licence
cc-by-nc-nd
Locations
  • Revista de Estudios Andaluces (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • Revista de Estudios Andaluces (cc-by-nc-nd)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Urbanism, Landscape, and Tourism Studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management › Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
Keywords
cultural tourism, tourism routes, travel itineraries, official tourism websites, autonomous communities, regional tourism policy

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