European Fishing Village

The diagrams below show the development of a small fishing village and its surrounding area into a large European tourist resort. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The illustrations depict the transformation of a little European fishing village and the environment around it, into a large resort of tourists.

It is quickly evident that a great deal of development in the form of infrastructure and services for the tourist industry has radically transformed the original fishing village, and previous economic activities such as fishing, olive, sheep and goat farming have been replaced by a tourism economy (with greatly expanded population that fluctuates with tourist in and outflow)

The olive grove  in the centre of the picture in 1974, has been transformed into farmland providing fruit and vegetables for the many hotels that have appeared by 2004.

It is immediately apparent that subtantial development geared towards the tourist industry, in the form of infrastructure and services, has swamped the original sparsely populated fishing village, and replaced the fishing and farming activities. Alongside this economics and infrastructure development has come a greatly increased population, fluctuating depemding on tourist number.