Literary urban landscape in a sustainable tourism context

Arcos-Pumarola, Jordi; Marzal, Eugeni Osácar; Molina, Nayra Llonch

doi:10.5719/hgeo.2018.122.3

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“…Likewise, those topics relate on how tourism pressures are triggering social movements, protests and tensions between residents and tourists (Cheer et al, 2019;Muler Gonzalez, Coromina, & Galí, 2018;UNWTO, 2018). Th ey are observed mainly on top European tourism destinations, such as Barcelona, Venice and Dubrovnik, and are associated with threats to heritage and the lack of consensus on visitation limits and protection methods, thus, emphasizing an urgent and continuous debate (Alvarez-Sousa, 2018;Arcos-Pumarola, Marzal, & Llonch-Molina , 2018;Martín, Martínez, & Fernández, 2018;Panayiotopoulos & Pisano, 2019;Seraphin, Sheeran, & Pilato, 2018).…”

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Overtourism and tourismphobia

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Tourism (Zagreb, Online)

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This paper aims at examining how overtourism and tourismphobia are being approached as emergent research topics in current tourism literature. It conducts an analysis of 154 documents, indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection and Scopus databases. The study follows a quantitative and qualitative approach, with the support of VOSviewer and HistCite softwares for a descriptive content analysis. The analysis focuses on highlighting important aspects in terms of the most frequent publication sources (authors and journals); co-citation, as well as dimensions and research streams; methodologies used; results obtained; and implications for future research. The literature review unveiled that the concepts of overtourism and tourismphobia are usually related to destinations’ development, negative impacts, and tourism policies and regulation. Results show that, although tourism excesses and conflicts have been studied for long, ‘overtourism’ and ‘tourismphobia’ have become usual terms, mainly within the past three years. Even though the adoption of the terms can be considered by some as a ‘trend’, the in-depth analysis of the topics shed light on how ‘old’ concepts can evolve to adapt to contemporary tourism issues. Further studies are needed in tracking the evolution of these topics and their implications on the future of tourism.

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Overtourism and tourismphobia

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“…To develop this case study, the methodology of Arcos-Pumarola et al’s (2018) article was adapted. These authors developed a literary itinerary in Barcelona concerning the novel Last Afternoons with Teresa by the Spanish author Juan Marsé, who builds the literary image of Barcelona in the 1960s.…”

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“…GIS tools also allow to create itineraries based on the novels written by several authors, where they describe memories, places and experiences which is done by intense research about the novel and about the history of the place described, to allow the compilation and edition of the information before the mapping process (Hladnik & Fridl, 2012;Arcos-Pumarola et al, 2018;Freitas & Albuquerque, 2022). For example, Slovenia has a vast literary heritage which, through real sceneries, tells imaginary stories.…”

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“…The various applications that GIS have in the definition of tourist itineraries are evident, reflecting the culture of a city or region and in its promotion. Literary novels can also have an important role in the definition of tourist content of a destination or in the creation of itineraries, as memories of an era, as descriptions of physical spaces and places and society through the way the author tells the story, from his experience and the social context in which he writes or through the characters and environments he creates (Arcos-Pumarola, Marzal, & Llonch-Molina, 2018). New cultural itineraries can emerge which respond to new tourist motivations and are communicated through maps, emerging as alternatives to traditional tourist guides (Arcos-Pumarola, Ribera, Casalderrey, 2022).…”

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“…Literary landscape allows the place reading beyond history, open to the interpretation of each person but also of the whole combination of ideas and emotions that underlie to the characters and the writer. It is in this sense that literature plays an important role in creating the image of a place (Arcos-Pumarola et al, 2018).…”

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Using geographical information systems in literary tourism: an analysis to the “An English family” novel, from Júlio Dinis

Oliveira,

Albuquerque

2023

IJTC

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Purpose The paper aims to present a literary itinerary inspired in Julio Dinis’ novel An English Family (Uma Família Inglesa) through a comparative analysis of the places identified in the novel and the touristic attraction proposed by Visit Porto website. This novel is representative of the cultural identity and society of Porto city in the 19th century. Developing an itinerary based on this novel can facilitate the reading and understanding of the historical and cultural development of Porto. Design/methodology/approach This case study is based on the reading of the Julio Dinis’ novel An English Family (Uma Família Inglesa), whose storyline takes place in Porto city, Portugal in the 19th century. It used QGIS v. 3.12 software, a geographical information system to identify the places, to produce the maps and to create the itinerary. Findings The comparison between the places identified in the novel and the tourist attraction in Visit Porto website revealed that only 6 points in the novel are referenced on Visit Porto website. These points correspond to the ones in the historical city centre of Porto. However, the creation of an itinerary that brings together all the points mentioned by Julio Dinis in his novel, will allow the development of a new touristic itinerary, alternative to existing itineraries in the city and that can be seen as a distinguish offer that allows a different view of the urban space of Porto. Research limitations/implications There are some limitations to this study that can be highlighted. First, it was difficult to find the correct location of some points identified in the novel, due to difficulty of finding historical maps with quality of the data. At the same time, as tourist information is dispersed by several sources, and most of those data is not georeferenced, it was time consuming the integration of all the information in the same geodatabase. The choice of the shortest path can also be considered as a limitation, rather than the route followed by the author in the novel, but geographic information systems operates on spatial and temporal scale, which can present a limitation in tourism analysis. In the case of this project, we have chosen the shortest path, assuming that tourist would prefer that. Originality/value This research allowed to address two areas of knowledge that are emerging in the study of urban centres as tourist areas: the use of GIS and literary tourism. Despite the fact that there are already articles on this subject, the originality focuses on the approach made around one of the greatest writers of Portugal in the 19th century, allowing to present a tourist itinerary about one of his literary works, and the comparison made between the places identified in the novel and the tourist points identified on the Visit Porto website.

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Data Analysis of Linguistic Landscape in the Context of “Internationalization +” Urban Construction

Kong

2023

Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences

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With the rapid development of internationalization and urban construction, the urban linguistic landscape has become an area of great interest. The purpose of this paper is to explore the data analysis method of urban visual linguistic landscape based on line-of-sight orientation and to optimize the design of urban linguistic landscape based on an improved genetic algorithm. The basic visual analysis unit and the viewable area analysis unit of the linguistic landscape are proposed to quantify the visual characteristic indexes and the optimal view distance of the linguistic landscape. At the same time, the viewable spatial point set analysis unit is used to obtain the view accessibility of the language landscape. Finally, the linguistic landscape optimization model was evaluated and analyzed for application effects. The results show that through the optimized design of 10 linguistic spots in H City National Forest Park, the average score of each spot evaluation is 3.48, and the full score ratio is 63.18%. The urban language landscape optimization model proposed in this paper can effectively improve the aesthetics and visual sensitivity of the urban language landscape.

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Literary urban landscape in a sustainable tourism context

Cited by 7 publications

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Overtourism and tourismphobia

Overtourism and tourismphobia

Using geographical information systems in literary tourism: an analysis to the “An English family” novel, from Júlio Dinis

Data Analysis of Linguistic Landscape in the Context of “Internationalization +” Urban Construction

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