Foreign Immigration and Tourism Development in Spain’s Balearic Islands

摘要: The Balearic Islands, which are located in the mid-western part of Mediterranean, constituted four larger islands and more than 150 islets. Their total area is 5,014 km2, 73% accounted for by Mallorca, 14% Menorca, 11% Eivissa (Ibiza) 2% Formentera. From 1950s, there has been rapid tourist development Balearics, this had important consequences landscape, economy society islands. One most significant role tourism emergence large flows immigrants, whose characteristics geographical origin have changed substantially last forty years. transformed from a rural-agrarian society, defined limitations its spatial relations, to urban service-based characterised high levels mobility.