Naturist tourism: a bet about marginal tourism. The case of the naturist quarter of Cap d'Agde in France

Within local development policies, tourism has a growing role, and to diversify marginal speeding cars, one of its main exponents naturist tourism. The Naturist Quarter of Cap d'Agde is one of the major world centers of this type of tourism promoted by the French government. However, in this same space emerge another tourism, swingers, paradigm of erotic-sexual tourism, leading to multiplicity of relationships, not without tensions and conflicts in different areas involved. In this article we analyze the key issues of tourism and tourism naturist swinger, focusing on the Naturist Quarter of Cap d'Agde, a symbol of these new cars marginal emerging.