La generación de capital social alrededor del turismo industrial en destinos de Cataluña y Escocia

Abstract

The industrial tourism is an emergent activity that many destinations with an industrial past are developing nowadays. About this tourism there have been created social networks of tourists and agents, whose relations have generated a social capital. In this workpaper, from the qualitative and quantitative analysis of surveys and questionnaires, one analyzes and measures the social capital generated by "all the actors" in two destinations with different degree of development of his industrial tourism, one in Catalonia (in the Bagues and Bergueda regions) and other one in Scotland (in the SouthLanarkshire), with the aim to confirm if a major relational dynamics of these social networks corresponds with a major degree of development of the above mentioned tourism. The realized analysis demonstrates that a direct relation exists between the social capital generated by the social networks involved with the industrial tourism and the tourists' quantity of this type; and between the above mentioned capital and the relational dynamics of these networks.