Políticas turísticas y urbanísticas en torno al patrimonio cultural en la comarca de los Pueblos Blancos de Cádiz: Análisis de los casos de Olvera y Zahara de la Sierra

Abstract

The economic situation in the Spanish agricultural zones in the last thirty years and the economic crisis of the primary activities or the over-reliance of the services sector have contributed to new ways to increase income into rural areas of Spain. There are related to the diversification of their economies which has led to an increased value of the cultural heritage in order to promote tourism, something that sometimes has devoted these places as areas used, consumed and enjoyed by a few different individuals to residents. It has led in some cases to the development of a museification of urban historic areas, at the time that people are leaving these places, boosted by the removal of the services sector and restrictions in designated areas. The analytic method of cases allowed us to study this phenomenon in two different towns of the district called Pueblos Blancos de la Sierra de Cadiz to establish differences between the policies implemented in this regard and the results obtained. We have deduced a number of problems related to the lack of citizen participation and the shortage and the ineffectiveness of rehabilitation policies.