ABSTRACT
This chapter critically discusses urban tourism from the perspective of mobilities, focusing in particular on the unfoldings arising from the COVID-19 pandemics. Therefore, it questions consolidated tourism concepts, by approaching new combinations of geographic scales of tourism practices in the urban context. The case of the city of São Paulo is brought to the debate, based on an analysis of the narratives and practices produced by AirBnB, which contrast with social vulnerabilities present in the dynamics and imagination of the central region. With this case, we can argue that, if, on the one hand, urban requalification processes and the emergence of new tastes produce business opportunities and urban sociabilities, on the other hand, it seems that the urgency to seek alternatives to the tourist immobility imposed by the pandemic disregard these vulnerabilities, which spatially coexist in practically coincident urban territories.
