Geoadria, Vol. 6 No. 1, 2001.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.15291/geoadria.163
The New planned Seaside Resorts on the Languedoc-Roussillon Coast (France)
Andre-Louis Sanguin
Abstract
The Languedoc-Roussillon's sea coast was virtually virgin and not planned at the beginning of the sixties. Within a natural environment made from lidos and lagunas, a spontaneous tourism emerged from 1880 to 1960 in the shape of some small seaside antennas of cities located 15 to 20 km inside. A town and country planning public program (the famous "Racine Mission") implemented six new integrated seaside resorts from 1963 to 1982. This paper paints a broad picture of each of these resorts after a thirty years' existence and indicates the outlooks in the framework of the European Union.
Keywords
integrated seaside resorts; spontaneous tourism; planned tourism; town and country planning program; lidos; lagunas; Languedoc-Roussillon; France; Mediterranean Sea
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9607
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Publication date:
1.9.2001.
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