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The sixties was a time of great interest for tourism development on the La Palma island. Various actions of public and private, as the policy of building a new airport, various tourist resorts, the tourism plan of 1968 or insular government also creating public entity "La Palma, Tourism SA” in 1969, will be the basis for future development of tourism on the island and will result push for private investment in this economic sector. Indeed, in the sixties, private investors had opened two hotels, while at least three others over a hundred beds each, weren´t finished.

This work supposes an approximation to the study of the shopping centres and of leisure in Las Palmas of Great Canary from the perspective of the spatial analysis, considering the characteristics of each one of them, the process of location, the consequences of his introduction and the conditions of insertion in the urban space.