Residents and Stakeholdrs in Mass Tourism Destination and New Scenarios
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Tourism, Culture, and Heritage".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 10359
Special Issue Editors
Interests: tourism; tourism impacts; tourism policy; residents attitudes; geography; cultural geography; heritage
Interests: tourism; cultural geography
Interests: education in corporate responsibility and sustainability; business ethics
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Dear Colleagues,
Mass tourism destinations have extensive experience with respect to the changes that have influenced the tourism sector in its historical evolution. In the last 20 years, several factors have intervened to intensify tourist activity in mass tourism destinations: the acceleration of economic globalization processes, the role of new technologies linked to new tourist booking platforms, and the growth of low-cost airlines.
The development model of mass tourism destinations is quite limited due to the unsustainability of the environmental and social structures on which it is based. The generation of low-cost tourism products with high social and environmental externality has led to numerous criticisms from residents and some agents of the most crowded destinations, with the cases of Venice and Barcelona being particularly relevant.
Regarding the unsustainability of the mass tourism destination model, a new unexpected factor has been added: Covid-19. This factor has notably affected the economic development model of mass tourist destinations. The impact of the pandemic on the tourism sector makes it necessary to propose new analysis scenarios.
This Special Issue aims to collect a wide spectrum of studies related to the tourism sector, with emphasis on the analyses related to mass tourism destinations and their best-known processes (touristification, tourism-phobia, over-tourism), but also many other processes that intervene in mass tourism destinations, including analysis of the policies that maintain growth processes, examination of the stakeholder structure, and analysis of the social and environmental impacts in mass tourism destinations. Specifically, this Special Issue aims to collect:
- Analysis of the attitudes of residents in mass tourism areas.
- Studies on growth processes linked to tourism-phobia, touristification and over-tourism.
- Compilation of experiences of social impacts in these destinations: protests, stakeholder analysis, the role of citizen and professional associations, the role of the media, etc.
- Study of plans, regulations, and control measures in the management of crowded tourist areas.
- Demographic and economic changes identified in recent years in mass tourism destinations. Study of cases.
- Transformations and urban actions in mass tourism destinations.
- Environmental impacts linked to intensification processes.
- Analysis of the global and local processes in which mass tourism destinations are framed
- Collection of proposals for new tourism models in the face of the Covid-19 challenge.
- Study of good practices adapted to environmental (climate change) and economic changes (impact of Covid-19).
Prof. Dr. Fernando Almeida-García
Prof. Dr. Rafael Cortés-Macías
Prof. Dr. Pere Mercadé Melé
Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Parzych
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Covid-19
- new scenarios
- mass destinations
- over-tourism
- under-tourism
- social tourist impact
- environment tourist impact
- tourism changes
- touristification
- tourism-phobia
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