Globalisation and multiculturalism have significant impacts on food culture worldwide. International brands and cooking styles, especially in the fast-food industry, are prevalent even in small cities worldwide. With its diverse climate and local cuisine, Iran always has various cooking styles. Food plays a significant role in the local communities, ethnicity, and everyday life. The...
Coastal areas underwent a radical transformation during the twentieth century related to the beach tourism industry. The development of beach tourism in Italy had a significant impact on the gradual transformation of the coastal landscape from elitist to mass tourism between the 1950s and 1960s, leading over time to the recognition of the coast as a major economic driver.
This beach...
The relationship between culture and tourism has been increasingly pivotal in shaping urban development and academic discussion within tourism literature (Richards, 2018). The โBilbao Effectโ triggered and amplified a segment of this growing debate specifically focusing on art and tourism (Franklin, 2018) and consolidated a โubiquitous narrative among urban decision makersโ (Ponzini, 2010)....
โTraveling for concertsโ has become a popular tourism trend in China (He & Fu, 2024). Besides attending performances, travellers would explore host cities. More audiences, especially celebrity fans, now travel to other cities for an event. This type of tourism, tied to specific events or media content, is not a new phenomenon. As early as the 1980s, the influence of films and TV dramas on...
The paper frames selected spatial questions linked to the โpandemic shock by Covid-19โ into the
transition studies and spatial turn literature. Specifically, the research focuses on socioeconomic
conditions related to the tourist sector in Milan, Florence, Rome before and after the Covid-19
crisis, to investigate if and which spatial effects were produced by the pandemic, by a...
The 1970s saw a significant increase in visitors to historical sites, leading to problems in managing these sites and the development of concepts in tourism and urban literature, such as โtourism carrying capacityโ (Kuss and Morgan, 1980), โtolerance modelโ (Doxey, 1975), and โtourist perspectiveโ (Urry, 1990). The pressures of visitor density and resource management inadequacies have created...
The growth of tourism, and particularly second-home development, has created significant challenges for municipal land use planning in Norway. Ownership of a second home in the mountains or coast for sport and relaxation is a long-standing part of Norwegian culture and lifestyle. However, their growing numbers and intensive commercialisation in connection with new forms of tourism have raised...
The rapid development of mobile Internet has made it more common for tourists to actively share their travel experience and itineraries on social media platforms, influencing the offline travel destination choices of other tourists with similar travel intention. This has had a huge impact on the traditional tourism routes, which were once centred around travel agency-recommended attractions....
Yangjiale is a form of homestay in Mount Mogan Village, Zhejiang Province, China. Newcomers from surrounding metropolises rented abandoned village houses in the local area, turning them into BnB, thus initiating a form of rural tourism called Yangjiale. Later, Indigenous Mount Mogan people, who lived in the surrounding cities, returned to their places of origin to exploit the new opportunities...
According to the World Tourism Organization (2024), estimated number of international tourist arrivals (overnight visitors) during the first nine months of 2024 is 1.1 billion and statistics show us that 2024 will be fully recovered the pre-pandemic period. Although Covid-19 is one of the biggest international crises in recent years, the number of travelers has increased rapidly. Therefore,...
The concept of "overtourism," introduced by Claudio Milano in 2017, is defined as the increasingly unsustainable development of mass tourism practices (Milano, 2017). This phenomenon addresses the unsustainable social, economic, physical, and environmental impacts of tourism activities on destinations, particularly focusing on the perceptions of local communities. The effects of overtourism...
The interplay between universities, urban environments, and their diverse populations often presents both unique opportunities and challenges. This case study examines how best to mitigate challenges while building on opportunities through the use of participatory practice approaches in the university classroom. The approaches leverage theoretical instruction in conjunction with participation...
In many regions of the world, and undoubtedly among them in Mediterranean countries, the dynamics of tourism are laying bare many tensions of a social, economic, cultural and spatial-territorial nature. Many cities are affected by heavy dynamics in which tourism-related transformations are intertwined according to recurring but contextually determined logics with dynamics of gentrification and...
This paper explores the intricate relationship between city branding/ marketing, urban tourism and urban planning, emphasizing the need for effective collaboration between practitioners and academics in the context of Greek cities. Despite the potential benefits, tensions often arise between city branding strategies and urban development policies.
Research Purpose: The research aims to...
Tourism-led regeneration is emerging as a widespread strategy to bring some economic resources to left-behind places. While many cities across the world are dealing with the consequences of over-tourism and increased rates of short-term lettings (e.g., increased house prices, inflation of consumer costs and wider clashes between residents and visitors or the seasonal population of these...
In recent years, amid overlapping global socio-ecological crises, the deep involvement of external capital in rural areasโalongside the reconfiguration of local resourcesโhas given rise to an increasingly complex landscape of rural transformation. This study focuses on the issue of โrural spatial commodificationโ instigated by collaborative projects in โrural constructionโ and โrural cultural...
For decades, emphatic calls for adaptation to climate impacts due to human-caused global warming have been rarely heeded in practice. A daily read of any reliable news source demonstrates that adaptation measures to confront climate impacts are inadequate, if existent. In parallel, climate change adaptation in the planning literature has mainly focused on policy reforms and infrastructure...
The relationship between gastronomy tourism and urban/rural transformations has become a planetary phenomenon, mostly studied within the circles of sustainable tourism (Crespi-Vallbona, et. al., 2017; Gezici, 2006), urban geography (Kowalczyk & Derek, 2020), planning and city branding (Booysen and du Rand, 2019; Deffner, et. al., 2019) particularly at the intersection of deepening...
The prompt growth of medical tourism (MT) due to globalization has significantly impacted urban infrastructure, socioeconomic order, and environmental sustainability in host cities. Istanbul, a significant destination for international MT, serves an illustrative case study for analyzing this phenomenon. This study investigates how MT expansion affects urban planning, emphasizing the...
Until now, tourism statistics data have been limited to metrics such as the number of visitors to attractions, international tourist card sales, and the number of inbound and outbound tourists. However, recently, the advent of Origin-Destination (O/D) data in the South Korean Capital Region for tourism-related population movements have begun to be provided, it has become possible to analyze...
A few months after hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games (OPG), we can already ask what the legacy of this event will be for tourism and, more specifically, for tourism stakeholders. This legacy is being built from the moment the Games are awarded to the city of Paris in 2017, in Lima. As the governance of the Games is complex, it is essential for each of the local stakeholders to assert...
In the Alps, mountain tourist regions are undergoing a structural transition driven by the tension between dominant industrial tourism-based economies and the effects of global crises such as climate change and shifting sociocultural paradigms.
These dynamics challenge the legacy and traditional practices of alpine tourism, redefining it as a multifaceted phenomenon that engages an increasing...
The Alpine region, as confirmed by data and statistics, is among the most frequented destinations in Italy and worldwide. As a territory at the brink of a critical threshold, it currently faces significant challenges related to tourism, particularly in the shadow of climate instability and unsustainable visitor influx. Overtourism, understood as the excessive pressure exerted by tourist flows...
This study investigates the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems in enhancing sustainable urban mobility and managing tourist flows in Casablanca, a rapidly developing metropolitan area in Morocco. The research employs a quantitative approach, leveraging Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) to analyze the relationships between AI system...
PURPOSE OF THE RESEARCH
Vulnerable territories cover 60% of Italyโs land surface, including inner areas, which are far from metropolitan catchment basins and the main centres of essential services and are therefore particularly affected by the lack of infrastructure. In fact, the development of the railway networks reflects the policies carried out for the improvement of the main networks,...
The study of the border region between United States and Mexico throughout the 20th century, and the first decades of the 21st century necessarily implies understanding the historical, economic, social and cultural processes that made possible the transformation of this cross-border area. The border in terms of space does not only refer to the territorial delimitation that divides two...
The extremely popular German holiday island of Sylt is the most expensive place to live in Germany. As in other holiday resorts on the North and Baltic Seas, more and more permanent housing on Sylt is being converted into temporary accommodation for tourists or second home owners. As permanent housing becomes scarcer, it also becomes more expensive. Consequently, more and more locals are being...
