Praps he should have nominated Torremolinos instead?
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dan Hicks wrote:
> From the current issue of SALON
> DH
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> Benidorm: World Heritage Site?
> Blackpool’s aspiration to achieve World Heritage Site status as a major centre of popular
> tourism could be mirrored by a proposal to promote Benidorm as a World Heritage Site
> because of its ‘special place in architectural history as the first high-rise resort in Europe’.
> The proposal has come from Professor Philippe Duhamel of the University of Angers who
> told the Twelfth International Benidorm Tourism Forum that the resort’s ‘unique collection
> of skyscrapers’ were of particular cultural importance. ‘Tourism is now the world's most
> dynamic and important industry, whether viewed in terms of employment, cultural
> change or environmental impact’, he said, ‘and the beach holiday is a particularly
> significant component of tourism's growth and as such, outstanding holiday destinations,
> like Benidorm, deserve to be taken seriously’.
>
> Cruelly, the Financial Times, commenting on the proposal, said: ‘to say that Benidorm is
> “a remarkable site for what is understood by mass tourism” is akin to observing that
> Chernobyl is useful for understanding nuclear energy. That is true enough, but it is not
> something to celebrate.’
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