ABSTRACT

This title offers a dynamic understanding of tourism, usually defined in terms of clearly circumscribed places and temporalities, to grasp its changing spatial patterns.

The first part looks at the "befores" – everyday places such as daily markets, flea markets, urban neighbourhoods, that have captured the tourists’ interest and have progressively experienced new development in their ordinary patterns. The second part investigates the "afters" – former tourist spaces moving beyond the tourism sphere and becoming places of everyday life, study, or work. Chapters explore what this means for local societies and examine this contemporary phenomenon of former tourist attractions becoming ordinary and everyday, and of ordinary places beginning to take on a tourist dimension. The hybridisation of tourist practices and ordinary practices is also explored through a range of international case studies and examples written by highly regarded and interdisciplinary academics.

This edited volume will be of great interest to upper-level students, academics, and researchers in tourism, urban studies, and land use planning.

chapter |7 pages

New urban tourists

In search of the life more ordinary

chapter 1|18 pages

Before and after tourism

How spaces “enter” and “exit” tourism

part 1|151 pages

Befores

chapter 2|16 pages

Tourism of the ordinary Paris

An unstaged authenticity 1 proposed by the inhabitants

chapter 3|12 pages

Shopping as a tourist spectacle

How Paris's shops blur the edges between tourists, foreign residents and Parisians themselves

chapter 5|24 pages

The invention of the ordinary city as a heritage and tourist place

The case of a new town, Cergy-Pontoise (France)

chapter 6|18 pages

Feeling home, promoting home

Cultural heritage, community building and participatory tourism in Barriera di Milano (Turin, Italy)

chapter 8|19 pages

New approaches to urban tourism

Living with a “big worm” in central São Paulo (Brazil)

chapter 9|22 pages

The hybridisation of tourism policies

Between the development of seaside resorts and the promotion of “ordinary” urban and industrial development: the case of Martigues, a coastal town in the South of France 1

part 2|109 pages

Afters

chapter 11|16 pages

From tourism to art of living?

Residential utopia and after-tourism in the French Alps

chapter 13|13 pages

Post-tourism and the Aquitaine coast

The fading concept of tourism accommodation

chapter 15|16 pages

Tourist wastelands

A “cold” time opening up possibilities of territorial redefinition