Tourism and social sustainability: Perceptions of the Local Community in Donostia-San Sebastian’s Old Town

Keywords: Sostenibilitat social, comunitat local, turistificació; Social sustainability, local community, touristification; Sostenibilidad social, comunidad local, turistificación

Title in different languages: Turisme i sostenibilitat social: Percepciós de la comunitat local al nucli antic de Donostia-San Sebastià; Tourism and social sustainability: Perceptions of the Local Community in Donostia-San Sebastian’s Old Town; Turismo y sostenibilidad social: Percepciones de la comunidad local en el casco antiguo de Donostia-San Sebastián

Subject areas: Turisme i oci; Tourism and leisure; Turismo y ocio

Confidenciality: No

Academic year: 2024-2025

Student: Ben Hallam, Myriam

Department: Economia

Access Rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Work's public defense date: 2025-06-19

TFM credits: 12

Project director: ARAUZO CAROD, Josep-Maria

Abstract: The global expansion of tourism has put the most touristic destinations in a compromising situation with their residents. The terms “tourism phobia”, “overtourism” or “touristification” appear in the news, in the scientific literature and in the daily life of local communities. Donostia has been a tourist city for more than 150 years, the local community of the city lives different realities depending on the neighborhood in which is located, but as it is well known the Old Part is the area with more tourist affluence. That is why the general objective of the present TFG is to know the perception of the local community of the Old Part about tourism in their neighborhood. After an analysis of the scientific literature related to the topic presented in the theoretical framework section, together with the study of the results obtained from a mixed methodology, we have reached the main conclusion that the perception of the local community changes according to its profile.

Subject: Turisme

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV)

Language: en

Education area(s): Gestió de Destinacions Turístiques

Title in original language: Tourism and social sustainability: Perceptions of the Local Community in Donostia-San Sebastian’s Old Town

Creation date in repository: 2025-07-02