Diferenciación y delimitación municipal de los modelos turísticos en la provincia de Alicante

The article tries to expose a new methodology for the differentiation and the territorial boundary of the coastal and inner tourist spaces in the province of Alicante. By the impossibility to establish a simple classifi cation, merely on the basis in coastal and inner tourist vocation municipalities. It is proposed by the heterogeneity of the work space to create a third group formed by the immediate municipalities to the coast, which as well, is subdivided in accessory municipalities of the coast and municipalities of occasional occupation arisen as an answer to the mobility of the coastal tourist fl ows.