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Anti-tourism activism and the inconvenient truths about mass tourism, touristification and overtourism

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    Identifier: imarina:9445998
    Authors:
    Milano, ClaudioNovelli, MarinaRusso, Antonio Paolo
    Abstract:
    Over the last decade, the debate on tourism has become remarkably polarised. For some, tourism represents the stalwart of neoliberal capitalism, nested in strongly skewed power relations, characterize by exclusionary and resource-degrading agency, which need taming. For others, it remains genuinely coherent with its original promise to be a 'force for good'. This dichotomy is per se an eye-opener for critical reflections. Drawing on anthropology and critical geography literature and informed by longitudinal qualitative ethnographical research conducted in Barcelona between 2017 and 2024, this paper provides a set of critical reflections on the inconvenient truths about mass tourism, touristification and overtourism in the context of the current rising of anti-tourism activism in Southern European destinations. By offering a bird's eye view on the well traversed debate, the purpose of this state of the art paper is to stimulate further critical considerations on the uneven dynamics of tourism capital accumulation, the deep-rooted inequalities associated with it and the effects of tourism excesses, with mass tourism being investigated as a phenomenon, touristification as a process and overtourism as a regime.
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    Author, as appears in the article.: Milano, Claudio; Novelli, Marina; Russo, Antonio Paolo
    Department: Geografia
    URV's Author/s: Russo, Antonio
    Keywords: Anti-tourism activism Barcelon Decent work and economic growth Impac Mass tourism Overtourism Social movements Sustainability Touristification
    Abstract: Over the last decade, the debate on tourism has become remarkably polarised. For some, tourism represents the stalwart of neoliberal capitalism, nested in strongly skewed power relations, characterize by exclusionary and resource-degrading agency, which need taming. For others, it remains genuinely coherent with its original promise to be a 'force for good'. This dichotomy is per se an eye-opener for critical reflections. Drawing on anthropology and critical geography literature and informed by longitudinal qualitative ethnographical research conducted in Barcelona between 2017 and 2024, this paper provides a set of critical reflections on the inconvenient truths about mass tourism, touristification and overtourism in the context of the current rising of anti-tourism activism in Southern European destinations. By offering a bird's eye view on the well traversed debate, the purpose of this state of the art paper is to stimulate further critical considerations on the uneven dynamics of tourism capital accumulation, the deep-rooted inequalities associated with it and the effects of tourism excesses, with mass tourism being investigated as a phenomenon, touristification as a process and overtourism as a regime.
    Thematic Areas: Administração pública e de empresas, ciências contábeis e turismo Ciencias sociales Economia Geografía Geography, planning and development Hospitality, leisure, sport & tourism Interdisciplinar Interdisciplinary research in the social sciences Sociology Tourism, leisure and hospitality management
    licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Author's mail: antonio.russo@urv.cat
    Author identifier: 0000-0001-8768-246X
    Record's date: 2025-02-24
    Paper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Paper original source: Tourism Geographies. 26 (8): 1313-1337
    APA: Milano, Claudio; Novelli, Marina; Russo, Antonio Paolo (2024). Anti-tourism activism and the inconvenient truths about mass tourism, touristification and overtourism. Tourism Geographies, 26(8), 1313-1337. DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2024.2391388
    Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Journal publication year: 2024
    Publication Type: Journal Publications
  • Keywords:

    Geography, Planning and Development,Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism,Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management
    Anti-tourism activism
    Barcelon
    Decent work and economic growth
    Impac
    Mass tourism
    Overtourism
    Social movements
    Sustainability
    Touristification
    Administração pública e de empresas, ciências contábeis e turismo
    Ciencias sociales
    Economia
    Geografía
    Geography, planning and development
    Hospitality, leisure, sport & tourism
    Interdisciplinar
    Interdisciplinary research in the social sciences
    Sociology
    Tourism, leisure and hospitality management
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