- Title
- Cultural Seascapes in the ‘Sea of Calms’ and La Restinga Coast
- Creator
- De la Cruz-Modino, Raquel, Piñeiro-Corbeira, Cristina, Aswani, Shankar, González-Cruz, Carla, Domínguez, David, Ordóñez García, Paula, Santana-Talavera, Agustín, Pascual-Fernández, José
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- text
- Type
- book
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/391319
- Identifier
- vital:68641
- Identifier
- ISBN 978-3-031-07289-5
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07289-5
- Description
- El Hierro has been characterized by the balance between human development and environmental sustainability. The island was historically far from the mass tourism developments dominant on the other Canary Islands. Tourism accommodations in El Hierro are few compared to more developed coastal areas in the Archipelago, and recreational activities are mainly linked to cultural and natural sites and resources. This chapter focuses on La Restinga fishing village and its coasts, where the ‘Sea of Calms’ and one multiple-use Marine Reserve (MR) are located, both of which became popular over the last decade. The tourist development experience has promoted a new way of looking at the sea and conceptualizing its habitats and populations. In 2014, after the submarine volcano eruption occurred in 2011, we estimated that at least 25,391 dives had been carried out in the diving spots established by the MR and other diving sites close to La Restinga. Despite the difficulties experienced after the volcano eruption, a unique imaginaire has been consolidated, thanks to the image of the island's exclusive nature and iconic elements. In addition, the rapid recovery of the destination is an excellent example of how the tourism system can adapt and incorporate unexpected events such as volcanic eruptions.
- Format
- 9 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Springer
- Language
- English
- Relation
- De la Cruz-Modino, R., Piñeiro-Corbeira, C., Aswani, S., González-Cruz, C., Domínguez, D., Ordóñez García, P., Santana-Talavera, A. and Pascual-Fernández, J., 2022. Cultural Seascapes in the ‘Sea of Calms’ and La Restinga Coast. In El Hierro Island Global Geopark: Diversity of Volcanic Heritage for Geotourism (pp. 105-113). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
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- Rights
- Open Access: This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made
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SDG 11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
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SDG 14. Life Below Water
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