Turistas y cambio social durante el tardo-franquismo. Campesinos, obreros y extranjeros en los inicios del turismo de masas en las Islas Canarias (1962-1975)

Abstract

Nowadays The Canary Islands represent one of the best known “Sun & Sea tourist destinations” amongst European citizens, which has undergone an increase in tourist numbers from scarcely seventy thousand in 1960 to more than fourteen million in 2017. These numbers, per se, show the significance of the tourist phenomenon for these islands in which the economic, social and cultural bases have been completely modified in the last 70 years. History of mass tourism in the Canary Islands is an important tool to understand, among other things, the gradual break up with the strict ideological and moral framework imposed by Franco dictatorship. Here, we provide a reading that is much closer to the social and work impact of tourists from the European Welfare States over the locals and to detect the contradictions, immediately emerged, in the dictatorship political context