More than a hundred academic works are presented annually in Spanish faculties with the aim of obtaining a degree in Tourism. Many of them remain unpublished, despite the usefulness of their data, either because formal aspects or the limited size of their studies. In this work, we have collected and analyzed a sort of academic works in which tourist supply and demand of bathing areas of Extremadura (reservoirs, gorges and an old quarry) have been the core of the study. The reduction in the number of international visitors (mostly interested in sun and beach tourism) foreseen for Spain (at least in 2021) due to the consequences of COVID-19 pandemic places the bathing areas of inland regions as tourism attractions of special interest. Extremadura is the region where more water is dammed in Spain (ca. 30%) and its geomorphology allows the presence of natural gorges in its mountainous systems. In addition, it is near Madrid and Seville (≈ 300 km) where about 15% of Spanish population is concentrated and well-connected by road (public highways without tolls) to them. Extremadura has 72 natural swimming pools (including river/reservoir beaches and gorges). Furthermore, two out of them have been awarded with the blue flag (Orellana y Cheles). In addition, most of municipalities have regular swimming pools. So, these bathing areas can be considered as strategic sites in this matter. Nevertheless, in spite of the potentiality of Extremadura few have been the studies carried out specifically on bathing areas of Extremadura so far. Most of these specific tourism studies have been focused on natural sites such as Monfragüe National Park and UNESCO World Heritage Sites such as the Old Town of Cáceres, the Roman Complex of Mérida and the Royal Monastery of Guadalupe.
