Urban Industrial Tourism: Cultural Sustainability as a Tool for Confronting Overtourism—Cases of Madrid, Brussels, and Copenhagen

Giralt, Carmen Hidalgo; Palacios, Azucena; Barrado–Timón, Diego A.; Rodríguez-Esteban, José Antonio

doi:10.3390/su13094694

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“…European historic cities with singled-out historic quarters require tailor-made solutions to follow their features. Lowering the pressure in the most crowded locations in particular cities often means attempts to direct tourism flows to other places in the city, which is often labelled in the literature as decongestion (Camatti et al , 2020; Goodwin, 2017), deconcentration (Hidalgo‐Giralt et al, 2021) or redistribution (Sibrijns & Vanneste, 2021) strategy, proved to be effective in several European cities such as Madrid, Brussels, Copenhagen (Hidalgo‐Giralt et al, 2021) and Amsterdam (Sibrijns & Vanneste, 2021). However, in the case of studied cities, the choice of new directions for tourism flows needs to be extremely careful as more tourists in residential areas may lead to an emergence of new conflicts and protests of citizens and a general increase of anti-tourism attitudes among residents.…”

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“…Cities with a large number of monuments and historical buildings, often castles, chateaux and churches dating several hundreds of years ago, usually included in widely detached monumental zones, are labeled in the literature with different terms: historic cities (Gómez, 2020; Wilkins & Honey, 2019), heritage cities (Kowalczyk-Anioł et al, 2021; Rosin & Gombault, 2021), monumental cities (Shoval, 2018; Smith, 2007) and art cities (Liberatore et al, 2022). The term historic city is often used in the literature without an exact definition (Hidalgo‐Giralt et al, 2021; Wilkins & Honey, 2019), sometimes with different meanings. Usually, the term stands for a whole city containing numerous and valuable monuments (Gomez, 2020; Hidalgo‐Giralt et al, 2021).…”

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“…The term historic city is often used in the literature without an exact definition (Hidalgo‐Giralt et al, 2021; Wilkins & Honey, 2019), sometimes with different meanings. Usually, the term stands for a whole city containing numerous and valuable monuments (Gomez, 2020; Hidalgo‐Giralt et al, 2021). However, it is sometimes used to describe a historical part of a city (Ashworth & Tunbridge, 2000).…”

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European historic cities and overtourism – conflicts and development paths in the light of systematic literature review

Żemła

2024

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Purpose This paper aims to check if destinations with powerful similarities also show similar tourism/overtourism effects that differentiate them from other destinations. This paper gathers and compares data on overtourism in European historic cities already presented in the existing literature and points out features and problems typical for these destinations. Design/methodology/approach This paper was based on the systematic literature review method, which allowed the author to indicate the most commonly studied European historic cities and the characteristics of overtourism problems. Findings The results of this study reveal that several European historic cities share similar tourism development patterns and the overtourism problems manifest numerous similarities. Significantly, these problems are characteristic of historic cities only and partially different from those observed in European urban destinations such as metropolises. Research limitations/implications This study enhances a proper understanding of overtourism and the contradictory results published in the existing literature. This study is the first step in building a more situational approach to overtourism and adjusting the theory to particular destinations' features. Practical implications The outcome of this study offers local policymakers several hints regarding effectively facing the overtourism problems. Historic cities require special attention when actions toward lowering extreme tourism pressure in monumental zones are implemented and residents' concerns about the spread of tourism, including short-term listings, to residential quarters need to be addressed. Originality/value To the best of the author’s knowledge, this is the first study based on a comparison of similar destinations aimed to develop theory and practical implications devoted purely to a limited number of destinations sharing numerous similarities. The set of coherent theoretical and practical implications designed for a narrow group of cities is to be an essential contribution to the development of research and practice in urban tourism.

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2024

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“…This heritage arouses interest in tourists who want to visit it and in the management of the spaces, which must adapt the needs of the tourist to the heritage. From the management, the heritage becomes a tourism asset that, when correctly worked, strengthens the cultural sustainability of the territories (Hidalgo-Giralt et al , 2021).…”

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The perception of UNESCO World Heritage Sites' managers about concepts and elements of cultural sustainability in tourism

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Baracho

Cantoni

2022

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PurposeThe research aims to identify the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Site (WHS) managers' perception of cultural sustainability concepts and elements in tourism.Design/methodology/approachA literature review was carried out to identify the main speeches and characteristic elements of cultural sustainability present in the academic field, and then a quantitative survey was carried out with 60 managers of UNESCO WHSs to evaluate their perception of the theme.FindingsThe results show that managers believe that the concept of cultural sustainability is much more closely linked to the social dimension of sustainability than to the economic and environmental dimensions. Thus, elements such as the preservation of tangible and intangible assets, the participation of society in the management of heritage, the democratization of access, the guarantee of the appreciation of culture and its preservation for future generations are basic elements for cultural sustainability. Finally, although they believe that understanding the concept of cultural sustainability is fundamental to their activities, they still lack knowledge of how to measure cultural sustainability in their spaces.Originality/valueAlthough the theme of sustainability has several published studies, most of the work focuses only on studies of its social, economic and environmental dimensions. The debates on the role of culture in sustainability are still incipient, and understanding the managers' perception of the topic enables the creation of more effective strategies that guarantee cultural sustainability in heritage by tourism.

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“…Several international studies have been published on the phenomenon of 'overtourism' (Seraphin, Sheeran, Pilato 2018) and its negative impact on the attractiveness of destinations and the quality of life of local residents (Bouchon, Rauscher 2019;Hospers 2019;Atzori 2020;Park, Kovacs 2020;Hidalgo-Giralt et al 2021;Sibrijns, Vanneste 2021). With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the tourism sector was given the opportunity to redesign itself (Kirca, Özer 2021).…”

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The impact of overtourism on the residential well-being

Molnár-Csomós

Kiss

2022

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Overtourism has a number of negative impacts on both the attractiveness of tourist destinations and the way of life of the local residents. The period of tourism converging to almost nothing, which appears from time to time during the period marked by the outbreak and global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, is suitable for examining the residents' perceptions of overtourism. In this study, the question of research focuses on the impact of overtourism on the residential well-being of local communities. Sentiment analysis was used to answer the research question, which proved to be a good tool for exploring the impacts of overtourism perceived by local residents in an unconventional way. The results, based on 13,145 comments, support which sensory perception allowed by representational systems – such as sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell – is more significant in the case of the examined keywords. Knowing the correlations of overtourism and residential well-being the non-governmental organizations and the local government of the municipality – which providing housing for the residents – can effectively shape the factors of residential well-being, but in addition the local residents as well exposed to the environmental impacts of tourism can play a key role in shaping their own residential well-being.

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Urban Industrial Tourism: Cultural Sustainability as a Tool for Confronting Overtourism—Cases of Madrid, Brussels, and Copenhagen

Cited by 17 publications

References 35 publications

European historic cities and overtourism – conflicts and development paths in the light of systematic literature review

European historic cities and overtourism – conflicts and development paths in the light of systematic literature review

The perception of UNESCO World Heritage Sites' managers about concepts and elements of cultural sustainability in tourism

The impact of overtourism on the residential well-being

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