EChO Tourism
Laganas, Zante, GR
Filippos Papadopoulos
Analysing Laganas Town and its surrounding area, amongst many contrasting peculiarities, a rather dominant one concerns the oxymoron and destructive relationship between the seasonal, cheap mass-tourism and the vulnerable ecosystem of the Laganas Bay.
Laganas primarily needs to adjust character through strategic isolation comprising twofold intentions: isolation ‘from’ and ‘to’. The proposed EChO-Tourism strategy, on the one hand, prescribes the implementation of sound-proofing landscaping techniques to restore and protect the vulnerable habitats along the shoreline and the periphery of the settlement and, on the other, aims for a structural economic reform through strategic demolition, infrastructural improvements, intensification and upgrade of the offered tourist product.
