Future agendas in urban tourism research: special editorial

International Journal of Tourism Cities, 2022

This edited book offers a comprehensive overview on a wide array of topics relating to urban destinations and city tourism. It is uniquely positioned and creates a distinct niche in tourism research. It raises awareness on the marketing and development of tourism cities. In the main, this handbook provides an insightful overview of key theoretical underpinnings and case studies that are focused on urban tourism destinations. Its forty chapters provide a useful guide for practitioners, academics and students, who are aspiring to work in the tourism industry. The authors of this title have acquired different backgrounds, qualifications and experiences in academic writing. As a result, this publication presents distinct writing styles and approaches. Some contributing authors distinguish themselves, among others, particularly those who are capable of captivating their audiences’ attention through articulated arguments, that are presented in a clear and understandable manner. “I invite prospective readers to check out this authoritative textbook. I am very pleased to recommend Alastair M. Morrison’s and J. Andres Coca-Stefaniak’s Routledge Handbook of Tourism Cities. This edited book is a rich source of thought for everyone who wants to enhance knowledge and understanding on tourism cities”.

International Journal of Tourism Cities

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The changing socio-economic conditions in the shift from the modern to the competitive, contemporary city has turned the urban realm into a space to be sold to external users, and it has brought to the steady commercial aestheticization of the collective spaces, which nowadays replaced the former public civic areas and converted them into consumerist simulacra. The steady commercialization of the urban space, and the rise of tourism as an activity associated with the main functions of the city can be arguably assessed as two of the most emblematic yet underestimated phenomenon. The academic interest on the so-called urban tourism is indeed very recent, especially if we consider the vastness and the prominence of the so-called Urban Studies and the importance of tourism as a key social, economic, and cultural factor in many different tourist destinations all over the world.

This paper reviews the international literature on urban tourism, the purpose being to highlight emerging analytical perspectives on the role, meaning, and importance of global travel for cities. It discusses a shift of perspective (and the extent to which we can speak of a paradigm shift, as recently suggested), in order to contribute to compiling an urban tourism research agenda. The ‘shift of perspective’ is discussed according to four distinct - yet closely interrelated - domains emerging from the literature review: Travellers’ Needs, Preferences and Tastes, City Tourism and the Urban Fabric, the Political Economy of Urban Tourism(s), Tourism Management and Planning, and City Images.

Tourism is undergoing significant changes through globalisation and new information technology. Tourism experiences are now increasingly being co-produced by tourism companies, tourists and local residents. This has significant implications for cities such as Barcelona, where there has been an explosion of new tourism products through new intermediaries such as Airbnb. As a result tourism is penetrating further into the fabric of the city, and is also being produced by the residents of Barcelona themselves. Perhaps for this reason they complain less about the negative effects of tourism than might be expected.

2017

The 6th International Tourism Studies Association (ITSA) Biennial conference was held at the University of Greenwich, London, England from 17‐19 August 2016. This was the first time that the conference had been held in Europe and it provided a unique opportunity to meet, hear from and network with tourism scholars and professionals from across Europe, Asia, Australasia, and North and South America. ITSA has a mission to encourage interaction and cooperation between developing and developed countries and the conference was successful in attracting 130 delegates from 29 countries. The main theme of the conference was &#39;Tourism in Contemporary Cities&#39; with four conference sub‐themes of ‘Tourism Cities and Urban Tourism’, ‘The Chinese Market for European Tourism’, ‘River, Cruise and Maritime Tourism’, and ‘Heritage Tourism in Cities’, The subthemes were chosen to reflect the unique location of the conference on the UNESCO Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site, and London which i...

The main objectives of the Conference are to enhance our understanding of the social world, to contribute to current scholarship, to exchange and share latest developments and research findings in a broad range of disciplines within the social sciences, and to provide a forum to bring various disciplines together to debate and comment on developments in Turkey and the world.

City & Tourism - Journal of City Tourism, 2018

City & Tourism - Journal of city tourism : création d'une nouvelle revue sur la ville, ses mutations et son tourisme. Creation of a new journal on the city's changes and tourism. City & Tourism - Journal of City Tourism, 2018. Par Patrice BALLESTER https://www.cityandtourism.com/ https://twitter.com/cityandtourism https://medium.com/@cityandtourism https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiJg81dbkXC3_DGxz2N-pTw? https://www.instagram.com/cityandtourism/ https://www.snapchat.com/add/citytourism https://open.spotify.com/show/5IUQSrwlI1WwKWiOg4TgvJ?si=DbYc9Sv3R5uAxw10KQDNMA City & Tourism - Journal of City Tourism City & Tourism - Journal of city tourism © is a scientific journal of research and debate on the city and its tourism, the city and its leisure, the city and its changes. It is all about urban tourism, which has become the world's leading form of tourism by adding national and international tourists, business tourists and day-trippers according to conventional classifications. Currently, more than half of the world's population resides in the city. This trend and this phenomenon of residence of the world population shows no sign of a decrease in our century. Knowing that the prospective statistics estimate a planet populated of urban at 70% horizon 2050, such a scientific journal has become necessary to meet the challenges and stakes of a world, which is very often globalized by the cities. This proposal for a Journal is explained by the acceleration of the practice of the city break - city vacation - city trip - city tour which is spread widely on a worldwide scale. This review has a scientific committee, a professional committee, an editorial committee and correspondents. The scientific journal publishes original articles, special issues, book reviews, interviews and critical commentary on different formats (text, video, audio and image). As for the popularization of scientific research, it is a mission of the Journal, this through a resonance of articles in the professional and mainstream press. We have a YouTube, Instagram, Twitter account, a Twitch space for live event broadcasting, a Spotify podcast, and a blog Medium. City tourism is an object of identifiable scientific knowledge and part of the globalization process. Our scientific journal sees in "the nomadic planet" where humans go from city to city, a new theoretical framework to better understand the processes at work and understand our world. The aim of the Journal of City Tourism - City & Tourism © is to work on different themes that are meaningful and emulate in the field of research disciplines. We favor two complementary approaches that will allow us to give a precise portrait of the tourist city, a marketing approach (economic, communication, management, CSR, branding and governance) and a geographical approach (spatial, human, cultural and environmental).

Research on urban tourism promotion has recently gained a considerable importance. Urban tourism promotion plays a crucial role in raising the tourism profile of the city. Given the difference of cities, it is astonishing to discover that cities' tourism promotion materials repetitively use similar slogans, phrases and expressions. This study evaluates tourism promotion of two different cities, Helsinki and Istanbul, which rely on three common selling points: 'the city between the East and West', 'the city of tolerance' and 'city size'. The study examines tourism materials by using content analysis in order to identify how these categories are used and how they represent Helsinki and Istanbul.