U.S, Feb. 23 -- Spain continues to debate tourist housing, urban saturation, and the dominance of the traditional hotel model. Yet, alongside these discussions, there is a tourism subsector that provides around 700,000 accommodation places, generates approximately 1.6 billion annually, and supports close to 40,000 direct and indirect jobs - a subsector that rarely occupies a central role in strategic planning: camping.

This perspective is highlighted by Sergio Chocarro, manager of the Spanish Federation of Campings, who offers an updated vision of the sector. If Spain's tourism system includes between three and four million total accommodation places - including tourist rentals - camping represents roughly one fifth of the regulated trad...