Cultural Heritage and Urban Tourism: Historic City Centres under Pressure

García-Hernández, María; Vaquero, Manuel de la Calle; Yubero, Claudia

doi:10.3390/su9081346

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“…ICTs allow stakeholders' collaboration and the raising of consumers' demands for more tailor-made products and therefore facilitate knowledge for diversification into niche markets in distant locations through social media [76,77] as well as in some historical and heritage cities such as Venice, Barcelona, Rome and Bruges [78]. The Internet and online social networking help in overcoming the distance barrier and speeding up diversification processes by focusing on new specialised services and products in low volume demand by companies; the more focused and specific online search queries are, the easier it is for a niche product to appear on potential customers' computer screens, giving them a comparative advantage but exposing them to global competition [79].…”

Section: Related Variety In Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism Diversification and Its Implications for Smart Specialisation

Weidenfeld

2018

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Abstract:The complex nature of tourism, its strong inter-sectoral relationships and regional dimension challenge innovation. The advent of smart specialisation, which focuses on regional diversification across sectors, offers considerable and hitherto largely unrealized potential for developing innovative tourism policies within this new agenda. This paper addresses the understudied concept of tourism diversification and its unrealized relevance to smart specialisation, which has emerged as a mainstream logic underpinning EU Cohesion Policy reforms and has diffused into other OECD countries. It provides a theoretical framework for studying product, market, sectoral and regional diversification as well as related variety in tourism. Some policy implications for realizing tourism diversification and for the potential role of tourism in smart specialisation strategies in particular are suggested.

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Section: Related Variety In Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism Diversification and Its Implications for Smart Specialisation

Weidenfeld

2018

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“…The "touristification", that is changes in urban forms and functions due to the growth of tourism [42][43][44][45], can pose a threat to the conservation of the values of cultural heritage. Over-utilization of the functional component can cause degradation of the intrinsic value of the heritage, which, consequently, leads to degradation of the use value over time.…”

Section: Tourism and Recreation Impact Categorymentioning

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The Role of Cultural Heritage in Sustainable Development: Multidimensional Indicators as Decision-Making Tool

2017

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Abstract:The concept of sustainable development has been the main topic of many international conferences. Although many discussions are related to the role of cultural heritage in sustainable development, they develop only on theoretical level. The answer to the main question, that is if the cultural landscape can play a role in sustainable development, could be positive only if we are able to produce empirical evidence about its contribution to improve economic, social, and environmental productivity of the city. It is necessary to produce empirical evidence to demonstrate that cultural heritage conservation/valorization is an investment and not a cost. To date, there are few researches about the indicators that are able to support the relationship between cultural heritage conservation/regeneration and sustainable development. This paper intends to go beyond this limit and approach this issue in operational terms. It is focused on the role that cultural heritage can play in the sustainable development framework. An assessment framework that is able to capture the multidimensional benefits of cultural landscape conservation/valorization is proposed here starting from the analysis of 40 case studies of culture-led regeneration projects. A matrix of multidimensional indicators (divided into nine categories) about the impacts produced by these 40 cultural heritage conservation/valorization projects and its critical analysis is here proposed, mainly focusing the attention on the double relationship between the tourism sector and climate change. Although the analyses often refer to sustainability, it is not concretely addressed because there is an imbalance among the dimensions: in most cases, only the economic component is highlighted, leaving out the social and environmental dimensions. Furthermore, the impacts related to cultural-led projects are mainly interpreted in terms of tourism and real estate impacts.

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“…At the level of impacts, the twofold nature of urban tourism, due to its ability to potentially bring about social and economic benefits to a destination but also deteriorate its environmental and physical resources, has been acknowledged and stressed diffusely [44][45][46].…”

Section: Tourism and Cities In The Light Of Sustainabilitymentioning

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Sustainable Urban Tourism: Reflections on the Need for Building-Related Indicators

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Turi

2018

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A solid and consistent research production has, up to now, considerably contributed to the identification and exploration of the meanings, theoretical foundations, and possible implications of tourism in the cities. The focus on pursuing sustainable tourism activities has also inspired different approaches (eco-tourism, responsible tourism, pro-poor tourism, among others). Nevertheless, difficulties still exist in the definition of concrete solutions to the complex problem of how to activate and facilitate the diffusion of sustainable urban tourism practices. Given the central role of indicators in the monitoring of transformation and defining impact mitigation measures, this article proposes an unexplored interpretation of such tools, which are specific for the built environment as a main component of the urban context. Starting from a broad examination of the literature on urban tourism and its related impacts, and focusing on heritage destinations, the authors highlight the potential of the built environment to play an active role in reducing the extent of potential flow impacts upstream of their actual occurrence. As a result, possible building-scale indicators that could integrate current downstream evaluation and mitigation practices are identified and suggested, and their possible implications are discussed alongside those of existing indicators. Finally, further developments for future research are suggested.

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Cultural Heritage and Urban Tourism: Historic City Centres under Pressure

Cited by 275 publications

References 34 publications

Tourism Diversification and Its Implications for Smart Specialisation

Tourism Diversification and Its Implications for Smart Specialisation

The Role of Cultural Heritage in Sustainable Development: Multidimensional Indicators as Decision-Making Tool

Sustainable Urban Tourism: Reflections on the Need for Building-Related Indicators

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