Kalymnos : un paradis de l’escalade au pays des pêcheurs d’éponges

Abstract

In Kalymnos, in the Greek South-east Aegean archipelago of Dodecanese, the tourist development was since the years 1970, based as in many other islands of the area, on the model of the traditional triptych of the 3S. However, this island not very accessible and suffering of a lack of beaches, does not appear to be adapted best to fulfill the requirements of hélio-balneal tourism. Besides it records today an important retreat of its international tourist frequentation. However, for a few years, Kalymnos has made more and more speak about it by the sportsmen amateurs of rock climbing for which the island becomes a spot impossible to circumvent with an international reputation. If the development of this sport was first of all to put at the credit of sportsmen inthem, the local authorities but also too the professionals carrying out the opportunity which the phenomenon as regards for the tourist redeployment of the island offered. Today sporting tourism does not supplant the balneal one in Kalymnos but it starts to offer a complement to him which will undoubtedly be essential for him with its survival in a increasingly more competing and demanding tourist market.

Keywords

• sporting tourism
• Greece
• Kalymnos
• island
• balneal tourism
• rock climbing