Playa de las Américas
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Playa de las Américas is a scale as a cottage-colony coastal resort on the Canary island of Tenerife, which is administered by the municipality of Arona. It is located about 78 kilometers by road from the provincial capital Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the southwest of the island. Playa de las Américas, together with the adjacent locations seamlessly Los Cristianos, Costa Adeje Torviscas, Playa de Fanabe and La Caleta is one of the most important tourist destinations in Spain, with an accommodation capacity for more than 100,000 guests (as of 2008). In the year 2011 4.092 people were registered with primary residence in Playa de las Américas, the Spanish State Institute of Statistics INE.
History
The history of Playa de las Américas as a tourist destination dates back to the 50s of the 20th century, as more and more Scandinavian guests for health reasons the southwest coast of Tenerife visited. The Swede Bengt Rylander, who suffered from multiple sclerosis and from its mild climate alleviation of his suffering had hoped, like his fellow countryman of rheumatic Olle Ryding found in the then small and insignificant fishing village of Los Cristianos accommodation. Both men complained that there was no therapeutic care in the area. They could both the Spanish and the Swedish authorities convinced of the need for such facilities so that in 1965, after three years of construction, the Centro de Rehabilitación Ramón y Cajal ( German: Rehabilitation center Ramón y Cajal, today: Clinica Vintersol ) opens, could be.
1966, the decision was taken by the municipalities Adeje and Arona to create on the coast north of Los Cristianos a small resort, which should be managed by two authorities together. Only the north of Tenerife, and there especially Puerto de la Cruz, was then heavily developed and owned approximately 23,000 beds. The tourism boom in the late 60s and early 70s and it provoked building speculation, however, resulted in Playa de las Américas to a much faster development, as predicted by the municipal councils. The bed capacity of Puerto de la Cruz was overhauled in the early 70s. The commissioning of the Südflughafens Reina Sofia ( 1978) and the expansion of the southern motorway TF - 1 to Arona and Adeje in the late 20th century made for further growth spurts. So to 1999, written between Los Cristianos and La Caleta an approximately 16 km long tourist city.
From an administrative perspective, a reallocation of previously Arona and Adeje co-managed the place was made in 1999. Was given the responsibility of Arona During the slightly older part of Playa de las Américas, the municipality of Adeje took over the management of the resulting from Las Américas hamlet of Costa Adeje.
Economy and Transport
Playa de las Américas is considered one of the most important tourism destinations in the Canary Islands and Spain. Accordingly, the economy and the infrastructure of the resort is designed above all to the needs of leisure travelers. Major employers are the hotels and restaurants. The townscape is dominated by hotels, restaurants, shops for holiday and beach supplies, car rentals, travel agencies and the like numerous. Playa de las Américas has a well -developed network of public transport buses. Another frequently used means of transport are the numerous taxis. Through physical measures in the first decade of the 21st century, much of the freight and passenger traffic could be routed on roads outside of the most densely built-up districts. In place of some roads generous pedestrian zones have been created with appropriate landscaping.