"The typical course of development has the following pattern. Painters search out untouched and unusual places to paint.

"Step by step the place develops as a so-called artist colony. Soon a cluster of poets follows, kindred to the painters; then cinema people, gourmets, and the jeunesse doree.

"The place becomes fashionable and the entrepreneur takes notes. The fisherman's cottage, the shelter-huts become converted into boarding houses and hotels come on the scene.

"Meanwhile the painters have fled and sought out another periphery – periphery as related to space, and metaphorically, as 'forgotten' places and landscapes.

"Only the painters with a commercial inclination who like to do well in business remain: they capitalize on the good name of the former painters' corner and on the gullibility of tourists.

"More and more townsmen choose this place, now en vogue and advertised in the newspapers. Subsequently the gourmets, and all those who seek real recreation, stay away.

"At last the tour agencies come with their package rate travelling parties; now, the indulged public avoids such places. At the same time, in other places the same cycle occurs again; more and more places come into fashion, change their type, turn into everybody's tourist haunt."

- WALTER CHRISTALLER, 20th century German geographer (1963) – quoted in Introduction to Tourism, Dimensions and Issues, 4th edition 2003.

Walter Christaller was the proponent of the theory of central place and was writing about the impact of tourism on coastal and traditional villages around the Mediterranean Sea.

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