Retrospective images of the Fenals sector. 1960s 1970s SOURCE: Local <strong>Agenda</strong> <strong>XXI</strong>, 1998. 08
has taken place in a very short period, relatively speaking. Tourism has generated some of these cases of vertiginous transformation which according to sociologists and anthropologists can be compared historically only to the result of certain colonisation processes or mass migratory movements. • On the other hand, the seasonal cycle of tourist activity which, together with the fact that almost all the city's inhabitants are directly or indirectly linked to the tourist tra<strong>de</strong>, configures a population with extremely diverse visages <strong>de</strong>pending on this seasonal cycle. TOURISM AND RESOURCES IN <strong>LLORET</strong> <strong>DE</strong> <strong>MAR</strong>: SEASONALITY. 45.000 40.000 35.000 30.000 25.000 20.000 15.000 10.000 50.000 0 E F M A My J Jl Ag S O N D Occupancy (persons/month) Water Consumption (m3) Solid Urban Waste (SUW) (kg/month)x10 The result is a generalised perception of provisionality, positive because it reflects a dynamic social body, open to change and transformation, but also negative in the sense that it lulls one into a sense of temporary permanence, of viewing things from summer to winter and from season to season, with a diffuse and scant long-term notion. In any town or city, there is always a great diversity of attitu<strong>de</strong>s and points of view – logical and healthy – among the inhabitants in relation to the collective project represented by human settlements of an urban nature. This collective project, besi<strong>de</strong>s the diversity of opinions, is influenced by counterpoised interests, by different <strong>de</strong>grees of rootedness, or even by consi<strong>de</strong>ring that these attitu<strong>de</strong>s change as a function of circumstances such as who is making the judgement, what month of the year it is, or how the weekly "take" is shaping up. This diversity, in <strong>Lloret</strong>'s case, can be accentuated by diverse reasons among which we would distinguish living day by day, of a prevailing uncertainty regarding the future, about which we have not reflected sufficiently, often the product of disparate views which coexist in relation to tourism and its relation with the territory, even making reference to that which represents the extreme heterogeneity of a population census which is the result of the aforementioned transformation. Note: Although the source consulted (Costa Brava-Girona Board of Tourism-INSETUR) indicates a maximum occupancy of approximately 100,000 persons, other sources have reported significantly higher occupancy rates for the month of August, with peaks reaching above 180,000. SOURCE: Costa Brava-Girona Board of Tourism, <strong>Lloret</strong> <strong>de</strong> <strong>Mar</strong> Town Council, Serveis Integrals <strong>Lloret</strong>, S.L., 1998. The Consequences of Diversity. The result of this diversity is a virtually infinite scope of attitu<strong>de</strong>s which, in the extremes, and almost characterising, range: - From the <strong>de</strong>nial or un<strong>de</strong>restimation of the problems, to the affirmation that "everything's disastrous". 09