Balneario

These resorts offer recreation, sports, entertainment, food, hospitality and safety services, retail, and cultural events.

Mexico's Acapulco and Puerto Vallarta are balneario city-destinations, for example, while Chile's San Alfonso del Mar is a more planned resort community and its Viña del Mar a city that also happens to be a balneario.

Balnearios are characterized by having beaches and hot climates, being seasonal destinations, attracting foreign tourists, and having boom periods surrounding festivals.

A beach (playa) is a stretch of land that is covered by sand or small pebbles at the edge of a body of water or especially the ocean.

[1][2] Features such as bathrooms, lifeguards, changing rooms, food options, picnic tables and sometimes umbrellas.