ABSTRACT
The Power of New Urban Tourism explores new forms of tourism in urban areas with their social, political, cultural, architectural and economic implications. By investigating various showcases of New Urban Tourism within its social and spatial frames, the book offers insights into power relations and connections between tourism and cityscapes in various socio-spatial settings around the world.
Contributors to the volume show how urban space has become a battleground between local residents and visitors, with changing perceptions of tourists as co-users of public and private urban spaces and as influencers of the local economies. This includes different roles of digital platforms as resources for access to the city and touristic opportunities as well as ways to organise and express protest or shifting representations of urban space. With contemporary cases from a wide disciplinary spectrum, the contributors investigate the power of New Urban Tourism in Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe and Oceania. This focus allows a cross-cultural evaluation of New Urban Tourism and its dynamic, and changing conception transforming and subverting cities and tourism alike.
The Power of New Urban Tourism will be of great interest to academics, researchers and students in the fields of cultural studies, sociology, the political sciences, economics, history, human geography, urban design and planning, architecture, ethnology and anthropology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|80 pages
Consuming the city
chapter 5|14 pages
Redefining a mature destination as a low-cost neighbourhood
chapter 6|17 pages
Tourism in a peripheral territory in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area
part II|72 pages
Protest and frictions
chapter 8|13 pages
Embattled consumptionscape of tourism
chapter 9|16 pages
Between political protest and tourism gentrification
chapter 11|12 pages
Powerful ways of (not) knowing New Urban Tourism conflicts
part III|76 pages
Representations and identities
chapter 12|14 pages
Shock of the new
chapter 13|16 pages
New Urban Tourism in the post-conflict city
chapter 14|15 pages
The race, class and gender of websites
chapter 15|13 pages
New Urban Tourism and the right to complain
chapter 16|16 pages
Science-driven mobility as a form of New Urban Tourism
part IV|10 pages
Concluding remarks