Is ‘overtourism’ a new issue in tourism development or just a new term for an already known phenomenon?

Capocchi, Alessandro; Vallone, Cinzia; Amaduzzi, Andrea; Pierotti, Mariarita

doi:10.1080/13683500.2019.1638353

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“…Most research studies on peer-to-peer accommodation, however, focus at mature destinations, primarily urban ones that can be placed in the stage of consolidation or even stagnation in the tourist area life cycle model. In such areas, additional accommodation capacity created in private apartments and rented on Airbnb may cause the number of tourists to grow beyond destination carrying capacity causing negative social impacts, contemporarily referred to as overtourism (Capocchi et al, 2019;Nilsson, 2020). Also, Airbnb competes against hotels, which negatively impacts the economic results of hotel activity (Dogru et al, 2019;Zervas et al, 2016).…”

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Peer-to-peer accommodation in destination life cycle: the case of Nordic countries

Adamiak

2020

Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism

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Internet platforms, enabling short-term rental of private houses, are an increasingly important provider of tourist accommodation. The largest peer-to-peer accommodation platform is Airbnb. To date, most geographical studies on Airbnb investigated spatial patterns and effects of platform activity on large cities. This study attempts to expand the understanding of the role of Airbnb in various types of urban and non-urban tourism destinations. It employs Tourism Area Life Cycle model to investigate the differences in the quantity of peer-to-peer accommodation in destinations in various stages of their life cycles. Five Nordic countries are used as the study setting. A database of 61 thousand active non-hotel Airbnb listings is compared with statistical data obtained from national statistical institutions on regional (74 NUTS-3 regions) geographical scale. The results show that peer-to-peer rental supply and use is concentrated in destinations characterised by the quick increase in the number of tourist visits.

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Peer-to-peer accommodation in destination life cycle: the case of Nordic countries

Adamiak

2020

Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism

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“…These are superficially associated with tourismphobia, especially by the media and some politicians. Recently, new contributions regarding the different aspects of overtourism have emerged [63][64][65][66][67][68], underlining the impacts on residents' communities and the aggravation of the consequences of uncontrolled tourism growth in urban and cultural destinations.…”

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“The Overwhelmed City”: Physical and Social Over-Capacities of Global Tourism in Venice

Bertocchi

Visentin

2019

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Venice is one of the most famous iconic destinations and one of the most emblematic cases of overtourism affecting a historic city. Here, social movements against tourism have emerged as a reaction to vastly unsustainable tourist flows that have had dramatic and transformational impacts on Venetians’ lives. The aim of this paper is to investigate how tourism transforms the social, cultural, and everyday geographies of the city. The effects of tourism on the historic city are conceived as a process of continuous transformation and repositioning. Taking into consideration the most tangible daily practices of tourists (eating, sleeping, and buying) and the finer dynamics of Venice’s tourism problem, we translate data on these practices into a temporal and spatial analysis to better understand how dynamic the texture of the city is in relation to the tourism subsystem. A comparison between 2008 and 2019 is conducted to evaluate the impact of tourism on residential uses of the city and measure the sustainability of growth of the tourism facilities. The investigation highlighted an impressive accommodation’s growth, from 8.249 in 2008 to 49.260 in 2019 of bed places (497% growth) in the entire historical city, a similar expansion is also evident in the total number of restaurants that has increased by 160% in all districts and a variations of 4% in shops instead of a population decline of −13% in the same period. In addition, a residents’ survey in spring 2019 was conducted to better understand the intensity of these impacts and the motives for depopulation and the anti-tourism movements. We focus on how tourism, if not managed and planned, radically changes the social and urban structures of the city and the lives of local residents. We conclude by presenting some local theoretical and practical insights into the touristic pressure, provided by citizens’ associations on one side and policymakers on the other.

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“…Regardless of whether overtourism is a buzzword, it has evolved, with the considerable role of new mechanisms of knowledge production (cf. [84]), from a news-media popular term to a comprehensive, but also blurring, relational, and stigmatizing concept [77,85]. Many researchers [1][2][3] stress that the problem behind it is not new.…”

Section: Social Conflicts In Overtourism: Causes Approaches and Appmentioning

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Deconstructing the Overtourism-Related Social Conflicts

Zmyślony¹,

Kowalczyk-Anioł²,

Dembińska³

2020

Sustainability

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The debate on overtourism still lacks conceptual precision in its delineation of the constituent elements and processes. In particular, conflict theory is rarely adopted, even though the social conflict is inscribed into the nature of this phenomenon. This article aims to frame the discussion about (over)tourism within the perspective of social conflict theory by adopting the conflict deconstructing methods in order to diagnose the constructs and intensity of disputes associated with overtourism. In pursuit of this aim, the study addresses the following two research questions: (1) To what extent has the heuristic power of the conflict theory been used in overtourism discourse? and (2) How can overtourism be measured by the nature of the social conflicts referring to urban tourism development? The systematic literature review was conducted to analyze research developments on social conflicts within the overtourism discourse. In the empirical section (the case studies of the Polish cities, Krakow and Poznan), we deconstruct the social conflicts into five functional causes (i.e., values, relationship, data, structural, and interests) to diagnose the nature of the conflicts with respect to urban tourism development. This study shows that value conflicts impact most intensively on the nature and dynamics of the conflicts related to overtourism.

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Is ‘overtourism’ a new issue in tourism development or just a new term for an already known phenomenon?

Cited by 79 publications

References 20 publications

Peer-to-peer accommodation in destination life cycle: the case of Nordic countries

Peer-to-peer accommodation in destination life cycle: the case of Nordic countries

“The Overwhelmed City”: Physical and Social Over-Capacities of Global Tourism in Venice

Deconstructing the Overtourism-Related Social Conflicts

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