ABSTRACT
Tourism and urban everyday life are deeply connected in a mutually constitutive way. On the one hand, this seems quite obvious, as tourism’s effect on the everyday life of local communities has been a topic for tourism research since its very beginnings (e.g., Sharpley 2014, Jurowski et al. 1997, Smith 1989, Cohen 1988). On the other hand, the rather restricted idea of cities as ‘destinations’ inhabited by locals and visited by tourists is an established and persistent one. As such, thinking about tourism beyond “a series of discrete, localized events consisting of ‘travel, arrival, activity, purchase and departure’” (Franklin and Crang 2001, p. 6), is still a pressing and promising endeavour for both urban and tourism studies. In order to shed more light on the manifold dimensions of the deeply interrelated connection between urban tourism and city life, this section looks at four aspects of this connection.
