Case Study 1: Overtourism in Valletta—Reality or Myth?

Ebejer, John

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-42458-9_7

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“…Additionally, the presence of many cruise ships within the ports brings on average two to three thousand cruise passengers in Valletta, creating significant infrastructural pressures on central Valletta (Xuereb, 2012, Ebejeret., 2020. The increased pressure of added tourism including the larger Maltese migration of those looking for a more urban lifestyle has continued to make Valletta less livable for residents contributing to an outflow of persons born and bred in Valletta (Ebejer, 2020a).…”

Section: Tourismmentioning

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“…Safeguarding livability requires that tourism be capped, and to engage in a paradigm shift who view continuous growth and aggressive commercialization as the solution to most of Valletta's problems (Ebejer, 2020). Curbing illegal use of space by tables and chairs set out by the catering industry is also imperative to avoid over tourism in Valletta (Ebejer, 2020a).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Dilapidation and grandeur co-exist side by side in Valletta with palaces frequently neighbouring abandoned and decrepit buildings (Markwick, 2018a, Ebejeret., 2019. Traditionally few hotels existed within the city, however the recent run-up and hosting of the European City of Culture (ECoC) in 2018 has led to the development of numerous boutique hotels and brought about the development of many Airbnb accommodations (Ebejer, 2020a). Valletta's physical form reflects a number of contrasts, between inwardand outward-looking, nostalgia, and looking towards the future on both a national and local level, as well as bearing the marks of an international and European city yet being uniquely a Maltese national symbol.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Valletta: A Systematic Literature Review

Camilleri¹,

Azzopardi²

2021

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Valletta is the capital city of Malta and is located on a peninsula which is heavily fortified occupying a land space of 0.8km 2 . Over the last twenty years, substantial changes to its population, physical spaces and cultural capital have occurred. This systematic literature review attempts to capture these changes and its impacts on the lived experience of the Valletta community by utilizing a search database to capture texts written about Valletta. From an initial sample of 499, after several processes of screening and coding, 58 were deemed pertinent to the lived experience of the Valletta community. After reviewing the various texts, several underlying conflicting discourses were identified. Future directions for further research are provided to deepen the academic knowledge about Valletta.

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Valletta: A Systematic Literature Review

Camilleri¹,

Azzopardi²

2021

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“…During 2017-2019, overtourism, with all its negative social and natural consequences, dominated both scientific and practical discourse over the development of tourism. Overtourism has been called 'game changer' (Volgger, 2019), 'third-order change' (Żemła, 2020), 'radical change' (Ebejer et al, 2018), or 'embracing change' (Donelli et al, 2021). The COVID-19 pandemic completely changed this picture, along with the restrictions introduced.…”

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confidence: 99%

From overtourism to no-tourism – costs and benefits of extreme volume of tourism traffic as perceived by inhabitants of two Polish destinations

Żemła

Szromek

2023

Journal of International Studies

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Overtourism might be one of the most characteristic trends and phenomena of tourism in the 2010s. However, after a rapid transformation caused by overtourism, an even faster and more unexpected change appeared in 2020: due to the COVID-19 pandemic, tourism temporarily disappeared from cities and other destinations worldwide. These two opposite and extreme phenomena were so close in time that they can be compared and their perception by different tourism stakeholders can be analyzed. Host communities were often major victims of overtourism, which led to the development of anti-tourism attitudes in many destinations. However, many inhabitants were also severely affected by the recent decline in tourism, as plenty of them depended economically on tourist arrivals and tourism revenues. This research is conducted for two of the most important destinations in Poland: Kraków and Białka Tatrzańska. The study aims to compare how the transformations to and from overtourism are perceived by inhabitants of these two typical and important tourism destinations. The results show that the impact of tourism was not perceived as crucial by the residents of either destination and that this remains true for both overtourism and no-tourism. However, the economic importance of tourism was strongly emphasized. Additionally, the indicated impact of tourism on their lives and their destination was much stronger for the residents of Białka Tatrzańska than those of Kraków.

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“…Although increased tourism activity generates benefits for the city as a whole, greater tourism pressure in central areas has also triggered the emergence or intensification of negative externalities that threaten their protection and proper functioning. These include a decline in the quality of life [1][2][3][4]; the loss of tourist appeal [5]; an increase in the cost of housing [6][7][8][9][10][11]; environmental pollution [12] that affects water quality [13] and air quality [14]; noise pollution [15], which particularly affects residents' everyday lives; overcrowding in public spaces [16] and congested infrastructures and services [17,18] and traffic [19]; an increase in crime [5,20]; the loss of cultural identity [21,22]; and an increase in the cost of living [23,24]. This long list of problems is encapsulated in concepts such as "touristification" [25][26][27][28][29][30], "tourism gentrification" [30][31][32][33][34][35] and more recently, "overtourism" [16,20,[36][37][38]…”

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Urban Planning Regulations for Tourism in the Context of Overtourism. Applications in Historic Centres

2020

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The rapid growth in urban tourism has brought great pressure to the historic centres, intensifying the negative externalities that threaten their protection and proper functioning. The aim of this article is to analyse the use of urban planning regulations as an instrument for containing tourism activity in situations of overtourism. A two-stage methodological approach is employed: Firstly, a review of the local governments’ response to the effects of tourism growth and the possibilities of local control in 46 Spanish cities is presented; secondly, a comparative analysis of the stricter short-term rentals regulations adopted by those cities is carried out. The common basis of the adopted regulations is the control of tourist use of an entire dwelling. Of the cities analysed, Barcelona has the most restrictive regulation, while in all the other cities, regulation is less restrictive and depends on the type of accommodation in question and/or the conditions imposed on issuing new licences. The results demonstrate the difficulties entailed in the process of formulating and applying regulations and reveal imbalances between the economic and urban planning visions, and between the rapid change in tourism and the much slower response capacity of governments.

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Case Study 1: Overtourism in Valletta—Reality or Myth?

Cited by 7 publications

References 18 publications

Valletta: A Systematic Literature Review

Valletta: A Systematic Literature Review

From overtourism to no-tourism – costs and benefits of extreme volume of tourism traffic as perceived by inhabitants of two Polish destinations

Urban Planning Regulations for Tourism in the Context of Overtourism. Applications in Historic Centres

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