Super­su­daca, a befriended south-​american think-​tank has launched Suda­pan – Endless(s)trips, an inter­na­tional com­pe­ti­tion about the urban poten­tials of mass-​tourism in the Caribbean. The com­pe­ti­tion focuses on the 140km resorts-​strip of Riv­iera Maya, on the Mex­i­can coast.

The com­pe­ti­tion tries to put for­ward of the key ter­ri­to­r­ial issues of Latin Amer­ica and the Caribbean for their inclu­sion in the con­tem­po­rary global agenda. Endless(s)trips is a com­pe­ti­tion of ideas about the urban­ism poten­tial of the mas­sive beach tourism in the Caribbean.

Endless(s)trips is a space of reflec­tion an pro­pos­als for rethink­ing the rela­tion between the local ele­ments, the tourists, the envi­ron­ment, tourism man­agers, the State, the infra­struc­ture and the land­scape. It is an oppor­tu­nity to imag­ine other cities, other ter­ri­to­ries and other ways of tourism management.

Due to its size, dynamism and com­plex­ity, the Mayan Riv­iera is an intense and urgent case of great poten­tial, an urban­ism lab­o­ra­tory in the Caribbean coast.

Endless(s)trips is sup­ported of the IAAC (Advanced Archi­tec­ture Insti­tute of Catalunya) and spon­sored by Prins Claus Fonds.

* Tourist strips are the mono func­tional strips of tourism activ­ity devel­oped along the coast line.

Jury

Vicente Gual­lart (Valen­cia, Spain, 1963)
Winy Maas (Schi­jn­del, The Nether­lands, 1959)
Prof. Carel Weeber (Nijmegen,The Nether­lands, 1937)
José Castillo (Mexico)
Bruno Stagno (San­ti­ago, Chile)

Full expla­na­tion is avail­able at www.​suda​pan.org. Feel free to con­tact info@supersudaca.org for more infor­ma­tion. Anyway, make sure you check out their slideshow on the type of ‘urbanism’, cre­ated by all-​inclusive tourism.