Shipwreck-based blue entrepreneurship in island territories: a case study of El Peñón wreck in Tabaiba, Tenerife. A conceptual and practice-based case study of shipwreck-based blue entrepreneurship in an island tourist coastal territory

Abstract

This article examines the role of artificial wrecks as catalysts for blue entrepreneurship in island territories. The study is grounded in the proposition that deliberately scuttled vessels may generate tourism, training, business and territorial value when they are articulated with appropriate conditions of underwater singularity, accessibility, specialised training provision, entrepreneurial ecosystem development and coastal infrastructure.