Tourism and degrowth: an emerging agenda for research and praxis

Fletcher, Robert; Murray, Ivan; Blanco-Romero, Asunción; Blázquez-Salom, Macià

doi:10.1080/09669582.2019.1679822

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“…Resultantly, calls for mitigating the negative consequences, conflict management, more sustainable tourism development strategies or even degrowth proposals have been raised in tourism academic discourse [79][80][81]. Nevertheless, researchers stress that overtourism as a destination-specific phenomenon is resistant to "one-size-fits-all" solutions [26,77].…”

Section: Overtourism As a Context Of The Se's Impactmentioning

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“…The SE as a cause of overtourism [77,80,[85][86][87] The SE as a factor of consolidating/speeding overtourism [29,42] Making use of private accommodation as a consumer authenticity and localhood trend [26,29,47,77,[88][89][90] Proliferation of the SE accommodation as a factor leading to deterioration of residents' perception/attitudes towards tourism/tourists [2,3,28,31,80] The SE collating overtourism…”

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The Sharing Economy and Sustainability of Urban Destinations in the (Over)tourism Context: The Social Capital Theory Perspective

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This article contributes to the discussion on the sustainability of the sharing economy by adopting the Social Capital Theory to expand explanations of the sharing economy's role and scope of relations with local communities in the context of overtourism. As mutual relationships have not been fully recognized through a theoretical perspective, the article aims to examine the sustainability of the process of the sharing economy impacting urban tourism communities in light of Robert Putnam's approach to Social Capital Theory. On the basis of a selective systematic review, the article discusses the sustainability of the sharing economy through the lens of bridging and bonding social capital. We argue that a new configuration of social capital, i.e., a sharing platform-modified social capital, arises from the unsustainable and disruptive power of the sharing economy implemented by virtual platforms, thereby contributing to an overtourism syndrome. However, from a medium-and long-term perspective, the sharing economy also impacts the bridging nature of social capital, which should lead to a more sustainable balance in its structure. This initial framework for understanding the impact of the sharing economy on sustainability of local communities provides an alternative approach to studying residents' perceptions and attitudes towards tourism in the areas affected by overtourism.Sustainability 2020, 12, 2310 2 of 26 human and economic activity, strongly emphasizing its presence in the tourism industry, especially in accommodation, transport, catering and tourism experiences [19,20]. As the SE's impact is widely discussed through the prism of accommodation platforms [20][21][22][23] we mostly consider this sector of the tourism industry. Overtourism, in turn, is a place-specific and industry-related mechanism. As a temporary and 'explosive' phenomenon, it condenses all the aspects of visitors' activity and the tourism industry in affected destinations, including the experiences or services distributed or accessed by sharing. Thus, when these two phenomena are studied together, we can discuss tourism as a domain of the SE, and the 'sharing' aspects of overtourism.Yet, due to an early phase of their evolution and the eruptive nature of their expansion, mutual relationships of both phenomena have not been fully recognized, leaving a gap for further research. Even so, many researchers claim that the SE contributes to overtourism by jointly pushing urban gentrification processes, depopulation of city centers and other processes of social exclusion [3,[24][25][26][27][28]. In light of this, in this article we consider overtourism in the context of studying the impact of the SE expansion on local communities. The emerging overtourism syndrome may be one of first striking examples of the problems in which the SE is directly involved. Thus, the externalities resulting from the SE in (over)tourism context on the community level could be a laboratory for SE's influence in general.Although sustainability issues involving the SE have...

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Section: Overtourism As a Context Of The Se's Impactmentioning

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The Sharing Economy and Sustainability of Urban Destinations in the (Over)tourism Context: The Social Capital Theory Perspective

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“…The literature has examined the causes and has proposed solutions—including taxation, mobility restrictions and potential degrowth—(Cheung & Li, 2019; Fletcher, Murray, Blanco‐Romero, & Blázquez‐Salom, 2019; Milano, Novelli, & Cheer, 2019b; Nepal & Nepal, 2019), highlighting the key role of the stakeholders in this context (Gutiérrez‐Taño et al, 2019; Nientied & Toto, 2020) and warning that simple or automatic solutions such as the technology of smart solutions, on their own, will not resolve the problems (Croce, 2016; UNWTO, 2018). The challenge for researchers is managing these complexities.…”

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Machine learning techniques as a tool for predicting overtourism: The case of Spain

Perles‐Ribes

Rodríguez

Moreno‐Izquierdo

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Journal of Tourism Research

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One of the most challenging tasks for tourism scientists is the prediction of potential overtourism situations in the tourist destinations. Until now, some efforts have been proposed for the purpose of establishing early warning systems. However, none of the attempts has tried to make use of a powerful prediction tool that is currently available: machine learning techniques. This article seeks to fill this gap in the existing literature by proposing the use of machine learning techniques in order to predict overtourism issues on a sample of Spanish tourist cities specialized in both, urban and sun and beach tourism products.

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“…Thus a potential resolution to this conflict would be to instead demand containment of such growth, either through social protection (a double movement) or, as we are increasingly witnessing, calls for tourism degrowth (a triple movement) altogether (Fletcher, et al, 2019;Valdivielso & Moranta, 2019). Whether this latest wave of urban unrest in response to touristification will inspire similar progressive reactions remains to be seen.…”

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“…Through the lens of the term tourism-phobia, we aim to contribute to the theoretical debate on oversaturation of historical city centres by, first, building on the 5D model of conventional tourism management outlined by Milano (2018) to integrate a sixth D designating the tactic of discrediting contestation through tourism-phobia accusations. Second, we go beyond these Ds focused on sustaining tourism growth in the face of mounting obstacles to propose an alternative set of double D-Ds advocating degrowth to counter the economic expansion precipitating oversaturation itself (see Fletcher et al, 2019).…”

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Not tourism-phobia but urban-philia: understanding stakeholders’ perceptions of urban touristification

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Blázquez-Salom²,

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Tourism development affects prominent city centres worldwide, causing social unrest that has been labelled “tourism-phobia.” This article problematizes the recent appearance of this term by unravelling the links between the materiality of contemporary urban tourism and the response it receives from social movements opposing its expansion. We endeavour to understand the meaning that different actors involved in the city's touristification attach to this term, and in particular the perceptions of citizens’ movements that claim to espouse not tourism-phobia but urban-philia. To analyze these dynamics, we draw on Lefebvre’s discussion of the “right to the city” to highlight the extractive productive relations characterizing the tourism industry and the contestations such relations trigger. Taking the example of two Spanish cities (Barcelona and Palma), our findings indicate that the social malaise found in tourist oversaturation is due to the disruption it causes to everyday life, including price increases and rising rents. Consequently, the discomfort popular mobilisations have generated among the ruling class has led the latter to disqualify and even criminalise the former’s legitimate claims under the label of tourism-phobia. To conclude, we call for a future research agenda in pursuit of social justice and equity around re-touristification, de-touristification or even tourist degrowth.

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Tourism and degrowth: an emerging agenda for research and praxis

Cited by 151 publications

References 77 publications

The Sharing Economy and Sustainability of Urban Destinations in the (Over)tourism Context: The Social Capital Theory Perspective

The Sharing Economy and Sustainability of Urban Destinations in the (Over)tourism Context: The Social Capital Theory Perspective

Machine learning techniques as a tool for predicting overtourism: The case of Spain

Not tourism-phobia but urban-philia: understanding stakeholders’ perceptions of urban touristification

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