Overtourism and degrowth: a social movements perspective
公開日 2019.10.08
A co-authored paper written by CTR researcher, Prof. Joseph M. Cheer was published in an academic journal, Journal of Sustainable Tourism.
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Title
Overtourism and degrowth: a social movements perspective
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Authors
Claudio Milano, Ostelea School of Hospitality & Tourism, University of Lleida, Barcelona, Spain
Marina Novelli, School of Sport and Service Management, University of Brighton, Eastbourne, UK
Joseph M. Cheer, Center for Tourism Research, Wakayama University, Japan
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Source
Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2019
DOI: 10.1080/09669582.2019.1650054
https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2019.1650054
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Journal details: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/14811
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Abstract
Overtourism is a contemporary phenomenon, rapidly evolving and underlined by what is evidently excessive visitation to tourist destinations. This is obvious in the seemingly uncontrolled and unplanned occurrence of urban overtourism in popular destinations and arguably a consequence of unregulated capital accumulation and growth strategies heavily associated with selling cities as tourism commodities. The vested interests of social movements has converged into growing protests against overtourism and associated degrowth campaigns have emerged out of this activism that calls for alternative governance and management measures that eschew touristic monoculture and simplistic economic growth-oriented models. Accordingly, we explore the evolution of the tourism degrowth discourse among social movement activists in Barcelona, and in particular, where this is related to claims associated with overtourism and the extent to which this might be influencing a paradigm shift from ‘tourism growth’ to ‘tourism degrowth’. Methodologically, we draw from an overarching framework that leverages long-term ethnographic research in Barcelona. Here, we employ in-depth semi-structured interviews, participant observations, informal conversations and retrospective evaluation of field diary entries.
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Keywords
Degrowth; urban tourism; overtourism; social movements; Barcelona
