Cuadernos de Turismo, 41, (2018), 683-686 Cuadernos de Turismo, nº 41, (2018); pp. 683-686 Universidad de Murcia ISSN: 1139-7861 eISSN: 1989-4635 TOURISTIC EFFECTIVENESS IN CULTURAL SPACES OF INDUSTRIAL ORIGIN. AN ANALYSIS OF THE TOURISTIC POTENTIALITY USING INDICATORS Carmen Hidalgo Giralt Universidad Autónoma de Madrid carmen.hidalgog@uam.es Antonio J. Palacios García Universidad Autónoma de Madrid antonio.palacios@uam.es Vanessa Fernández Chamorro Universidad a Distancia de Madrid vanessa.fernandez@udima.es There are many representative cases about industrial elements that after the cessation of their activity have been transformed into cultural spaces that increase the cultural offer of Madrid. Despite its undeniable heritage value, its strategic location in the city and the quality of the cultural events that it programs, its integration into the urban tourist dynamic as a tourist product reveals itself to be very limited (Figure 1). The hypothesis that is handled in this research indicates that there are certain factors that favor the tourist operation of the cultural spaces while others drown the transformation of these cultural resources into tourist products and therefore they restrict their integration in the tourist offer of the city. But what factors are these? What influence do they have in the tourist operation of cultural spaces of industrial origin? Can they be quantifiable? Are they able to explain the tourist reality of these cultural resources? In order to clarify these aspects, this research has as main objective to analyze the tourist operation of cultural spaces of industrial origin through the application of a series of indicators to determine what factors are blocking their transformation into tourist products and their integration in the dynamics of the Madrid. In order to reach these objectives, this study proposes a work methodology based on a descriptive statistical analysis of indicators. It is a question of 20 items which are divided into 5 large groups (accessibility, legal conditions, web information, urban landscape and tourism potential), applied to the 18 cultural spaces of industrial origin, inventoried and characterized in this research. The first block, “accessibility”, aims to determine the degree of accessibility of public and private transport to the cultural space, as well as the possibility of free parking in the area. With the set of indicators “legal conditions”, the