La eclosión de los campings en la España Franquista. El caso de la

Abstract

Although both tourism and camping have their own history, the emergence of mass tourism in Spain during the 1950s led to a new and unexpected scenario that required rapid adaptation. The transformation of the coastline next to Barcelona is a good example of such an adaptation. Several circumstantial initiatives are illustrative of this rapid and unforeseen reaction. They show how expectations changed between the mid-1940s and the mid-1950s, and how a surprising set of circumstances came together the hatching of campsites that occupied the coast and defined the area for decades.