The Perception of Overtourism in Urban Destinations. Empirical Evidence based on Residents’ Emotional Response

Reverté, Francesc González

doi:10.1080/21568316.2021.1980094

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“…An influx of tourists and catering businesses can drive up property values and rents, leading to gentrification, studentification, and displacement [19,20,41]. This can force long-time residents out of their neighborhoods, disrupting the social fabric and potentially causing resentment towards tourists [42][43][44]. Additionally, increased tourist activity can put a strain on existing infrastructure, such as water supply, waste management systems, and public transportation [45][46][47].…”

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Urban Transformation: Analyzing the Combined Forces of Vacant Building Occupancy and Socio-Economic Dynamics

Santos,

Ramalhete

2024

Sustainability

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In the last decades, historic European cities such as Lisbon have faced the challenge of aging dwellings, infrastructures, and a growing number of vacant buildings. These vacant spaces represent both a problem and an opportunity for the cities. While they detract from the city’s aesthetics and safety, they also offer a chance for renewal. Strategic reuse can address housing shortages, boost businesses, and revitalize neighborhoods. This study examines Lisbon’s efforts to revitalize vacant buildings from 2009 to 2022, with projections extending into the next five to ten years. Analyzing data on building use and reoccupation, the study reveals significant progress. A detailed survey of 1674 vacant buildings in 2009 shows many have been transformed. Then, through a GIS-based analysis, the immediate social and economic impacts of the requalification process are assessed, and two future development scenarios are evaluated. By 2022, 60% of these buildings (999) were reoccupied, expanding housing options and driving economic growth. Shops saw a 166% increase in occupancy, highlighting a thriving commercial sector. Additionally, 27% of the reoccupied buildings now hold tourism activities, including short-rental accommodation and hotels. Short- and long-term scenarios are proposed based on a comprehensive survey that captured the status, function, and preservation conditions of the vacant buildings within the city. These scenarios are planning tools for exploring potential future trajectories of urban development, allowing policymakers to anticipate issues, mitigate risks, and make informed decisions, shaping a more sustainable and resilient Lisbon.

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Urban Transformation: Analyzing the Combined Forces of Vacant Building Occupancy and Socio-Economic Dynamics

Santos,

Ramalhete

2024

Sustainability

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“…One of the first published segmentations is a study conducted on the Sleat peninsula (Isle of Skye) in Scotland [21][22][23]. Since then, studies have been carried out in various regions of the world: Australia [24][25][26][27][28], Brazil [29], Cambodia [30], Cape Verde [31], China [32][33][34][35][36], Croatia [37], Greece [38,39], Italy [17,[40][41][42][43][44], Malaysia [45], Mexico [46], New Zealand [5,[47][48][49], Portugal [50], Senegal [51], Spain [52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61], Sweden [62], Türkiye [63], United Kingdom [21][22][23]…”

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“…Ramon et al [58] compared the residents' attitudes in Ibiza (Spain) and Punta del Este (Uruguay), obtaining four groups: enthusiasts, moderates, critics, and negatives. In relation to overtourism, a study carried out in Barcelona (Spain) identified three types of residents: tourism supporters, tourism-opposed residents, and neutral residents [56]. Soares et al [61] analyzed the attitudes of Santiago de Compostela residents toward tourist taxes and found three groups: tax skeptics, tax enthusiasts, and tax reactionaries.…”

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“…The most enthusiastic supporters go by different names. Absolute supporters [30], development supporters [40,52,62], embracers [39], enthusiastic supporters [33], enthusiasts (e.g., [29,36,41,58,59]), favorers [17], lovers (e.g., [5,24,47,49,57]), optimists [31,45,54], supporters (e.g., [44,46,56,60,70]), etc. Detractors are called critics [36,41,42,49,58], cynics [5], haters [24,47,57,64,67], naysayers [45], opponents [27,28,56], opposers [17,60], pessimists [54,70], protectionists [40,52], skeptics [29,62], somewhat irritated …”

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The Society’s Heterogeneity Regarding Attitudes towards Tourism: A Cluster Analysis of the Ibiza Residents

Ramón-Cardona

Sánchez-Fernández

2023

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The residents’ attitudes towards tourism are heterogeneous, although most studies do not focus their analysis on analyzing this variability. The segmentation of residents based on their attitudes has sought to determine the existing profiles within the local society of tourist destinations and their quantitative importance. The aim of this article is to carry out a segmentation of Ibiza residents according to their attitudes towards tourism. In this case, it seeks to analyze the existing heterogeneity in the local society of a mature and highly mediated tourist destination. Ibiza is a Spanish island in the Western Mediterranean with a surface area of 572 km and 150,000 inhabitants. It receives three million tourists a year, making it one of the most internationally known tourist destinations. The methodology used is a descending hierarchical cluster analysis (Howard-Harris algorithm) on a sample of 418 residents selected by a random procedure. The analysis has made it possible to identify five groups with opinions ranging from the most favorable towards tourism (enthusiastic supporters) to the most adverse (critics), with several intermediate groups (interested supporters, supporters with nuanced opinions, and neutrals). The most numerous groups are the supporters with nuanced opinions (23.0%), called by other authors “realists” for being aware of both the positive and negative impacts, and the critics (23.4%) concerned about the negative impacts. The minority group is the neutrals (13.6%). These proportions are plausible given the fact that it is a mature and highly crowded destination. This heterogeneity of attitudes should remind us that, in societies, there are always very different personal situations that will generate very different attitudes, and it is essential to know this social heterogeneity in order to manage the tourist destination correctly.

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“…e academic literature highlights a notable absence of segmentation research focused on residents' perceptions and attitudes in a mining locality, with limited attention paid to destinations in the emerging phase of tourism development (Schoroeder, 1992;Martin, 1995;Harril et al, 2011;Chen, 2011;Schofield, 2011;Sinclair-Maragh, Gursoy & Vieregge, 2015;Da Cruz Vareiro, Remoaldo, & Ribeiro, 2018;Wassler, Nguyen, & Schuckert, 2019;Zheng, Ritchie, Benckendorff, & Bao, 2019;Lopes, Remoaldo, & Ribeiro, 2019;Nguyen, 2022).In Spain, studies on the segmentation of residents are scarce and have predominantly focused on island sun and beach destinations (Aguiló-Pérez & Roselló-Nadal, 2005;Garau-Vadell, Díaz-Armas, & Gutierrez-Taño, 2014;Martín, Moreira, & Román, 2020;Camprubí & Garau-Vadell, 2022). Some exceptions include research on event tourism (Parra-Camacho et al, 2016) and urban tourism (González-Reverté, 2022), all of which are at the consolidation (maturity) stage of the Tourism Area Life Cycle eory (Butler 1980).…”

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Clustering residents of a spanish mining site: when attitudes towards tourism are not linked to perceptions

Porras Bueno,

Plaza Mejía,

Flores Ruiz

2024

IIRR-JORR

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is study uses a segmentation framework to categorize the residents of Minas de Riotinto, a mining town in Andalusia, Spain, based on their perceptions of the personal and community eﬀects of tourism. ese segments were then classiﬁed according to their tourism attitudes, utilizing a three-dimensional approach encompassing aﬀective, cognitive, and behavioral elements. For this purpose, a cluster analysis and the Kruskal-Wallis test were successively applied to the responses of 346 residents. The results revealed three main groups of residents: "interested and enthusiastic supporters", "disinterested and moderate supporters" and "incongruous and impulsive residents". Contrary to our expectations, all groups showed favorable aﬀective attitudes towards tourism development in their region. However, signiﬁcant diﬀerences emerged between groups concerning the cognitive and behavioral dimensions of their attitudes.

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The Perception of Overtourism in Urban Destinations. Empirical Evidence based on Residents’ Emotional Response

Cited by 7 publications

References 62 publications

Urban Transformation: Analyzing the Combined Forces of Vacant Building Occupancy and Socio-Economic Dynamics

Urban Transformation: Analyzing the Combined Forces of Vacant Building Occupancy and Socio-Economic Dynamics

The Society’s Heterogeneity Regarding Attitudes towards Tourism: A Cluster Analysis of the Ibiza Residents

Clustering residents of a spanish mining site: when attitudes towards tourism are not linked to perceptions

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