The rest of the paper is organized into five additional sections. In
Section 2 we briefly describe the geographical location of Andalusia,
its importance in the Spanish tourism context and some remarks
about its own legal framework for tourism, and Section 3 introduces
the methodology and data that were used in assessing tourism's spatial
structure for the case study. Section 4 examines the relative importance
and main spatial characteristics of tourism in Andalusia through the
municipal distribution of bed places in regulated accommodation establishments.
Finally, Section 5 focuses on the evolution of the municipal
distributions of regulated accommodation establishments broken
down by accommodation type and quality, and Section 6 summarizes
the study results, identify further research needs and provide some
concluding remarks.