La double révolution urbaine du tourisme

Stock, Mathis; Lucas, Léopold

doi:10.3917/esp.151.0015

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“…and these activities provide rich profits for the developers. In fact, a large number of studies show that tourism, because of the nature of its economic activity, has boosted urban development and city planning ever since its beginnings (Hanningan, 1995;Stock and Lucas, 2012). In addition, it still does everywhere.…”

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The instrumental time of memory: local politics and urban aesthetics in a tourism context

Pedregal¹

2019

JTA

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Purpose This paper aims to show that tourism is one of the most perfect creations of the capitalist mode of production insofar as not only does it consume places and territories and perpetuate dependency relations, but in the expressive dimension, it also produces feelings and meanings and generates a new relationship of the past with the present and future (chronotope). Design/methodology/approach The study was carried out using a socio-anthropological approach with participant observation over several decades. Findings The modes of time are described and how the tourism chronotope shapes the historic centre of a consolidated tourist destination. The case study, analysed with the model of the “conversion of place through the mediation of tourism space”, illustrates the prevalence of instrumental and commercial values over one’s own aesthetic-expressive values in tourism contexts. This fact encourages the emergence of local political projects and the incorporation of uniformities outside the local place. These processes end up uprooting the anchors from collective memory. The definition of territories according to visitors’ imaginaries and expectations encourages the abusive occupation of public space and the adoption of new aesthetic attributes of urban space. Research limitations/implications Because of the chosen research approach and methodologies, the research results may lack generalisability. Therefore, researchers are encouraged to test both the model and the propositions further. Originality/value This study approaches the relationship of the idea Tourism with the idea Development based on the anchors of memory.

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Section: Local Politics and Urban Aestheticsmentioning

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The instrumental time of memory: local politics and urban aesthetics in a tourism context

Pedregal¹

2019

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“…Third, following Lefebvre (1970), Lévy (1994 and Stock and Lucas (2012), we understand the urban as a social space defined by density, diversity, centrality and public space. In this perspective, not just cities but any geographical place can be analysed as urban, albeit with different degrees of urbaneness or urbanity (Lévy, 2012).…”

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“…This has been framed by Mullins (1991, p. 332) as "tourism urbanisation as a new spatial form". More recently, Stock and Lucas (2012) develop the idea of a "double urban revolution of tourism" triggered at seaside resorts and in cities. It means especially the transfer of urbanness from the city to the resort, but also the global centralities developed by tourism in cities.…”

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“…In a capitalistic accumulation regime, planetary urbanisation can, therefore, be understood as a "production of space", with the urban characteristics expanding beyond the city and reorganising the urban at different levels, from the local to the global (Lefebvre, 1970(Lefebvre, , 2001Soja, 1996;Brenner and Schmid, 2014). Tourism plays a key role in these urbanisation processes, due to its ever-expanding importance: the emergence of seaside resorts and mountain resorts over the last 200 years, as well as the re-urbanisation of cities through tourism, are cases in point (Stock and Lucas, 2012). As international arrivals increase -from 25 million international arrivals in 1950 to 1.4 billion in 2018 (UNWTO, 2020) -and domestic tourism grows even more, probably attaining a tenfold figure -China with its 4 billion trips, or the USA with its 2 billion trips, are cases in point on a national level (UNWTO, 2020) -new urban infrastructure, as well as new way of governance are needed, concretising the link between the growing touristification of the world and its urbanisation.…”

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Discursive Construction of a Destination. Urban Transition Through Tourism in Ticino Between 1980s and 2010s

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Stock²

2021

tourisme

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“…Urban transformations, no matter how spectacular, are an integral part of a city's development and are the object of social-science research (Cunha, 2005;Gravari-Barbas and Jacquot, 2007;Veschambre, 2008;Dupuis and Söderström, 2010). Tourism has been shown to be a powerful agent of transformation (Fagnoni, 2004;Fainstein, 1996;Gravari-Barbas and Fagnoni, 2013;Judd and Fainstein, 1999;Novy and Huning, 2009;Stock and Lucas, 2012;Stock, 2001) through the policies and practices to promote touristically objects and sites in urban centres. However, as tourism transforms cities, the process itself is now of interest to tourists and thus becomes a resource for sector businesses (Naef, 2016).…”

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Exploring new frontiers? “Neo-slumming” and gentrification as a tourism resource

Pieroni

Naef

2019

IJTC

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse urban transformation as a tourism resource. Tourism is undeniably a powerful motor for urban transformation but in return, urban transformation can represent a resource for actors related to tourism. More precisely this paper focuses on one major transformation of modern cities: gentrification. Design/methodology/approach The central hypothesis of this paper is that gentrification accompanies tourism, but that gentrification itself may also become an object of the tourist gaze. The paper focuses on local guides and small touristic entrepreneurs in order to identify the tensions that might arise. The presentation of two guided tours – “Subculture Brixton Nightlife Tour” and “Where Brooklyn At?” – will enable us to explore how the gentrification of Brixton (London) and Brooklyn (New York) may be used as a tourism resource for local private entrepreneurs. Findings Results presented here are based on ethnographic methods such as observation as well as content analysis and semi-directive interviews. Mobilising the historical concept of “slumming”, this paper proposes an extended conceptual framework, “neo-slumming”, to analyse evolving tourism practices in modern cities, practices that are considered here as tourism’s new frontiers. Originality/value However, as tourism transforms cities, the process itself is now of interest to tourists and thus becomes a resource for sector businesses (Naef, 2018). Yet studies about the touristification of urban transformation are still quite rare. This analysis aims to fill this gap by looking at the way a process, such as some spectacular, rapid or radical transformation of the urban fabric, can become a touristic resource associated with specific narratives and representations. In this context, the tourist gaze (Urry, 2002) is directed on a resource characterised by its ongoing change.

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La double révolution urbaine du tourisme

Cited by 27 publications

References 5 publications

The instrumental time of memory: local politics and urban aesthetics in a tourism context

The instrumental time of memory: local politics and urban aesthetics in a tourism context

Discursive Construction of a Destination. Urban Transition Through Tourism in Ticino Between 1980s and 2010s

Exploring new frontiers? “Neo-slumming” and gentrification as a tourism resource

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