The Power of New Urban Tourism

Claudia Ba is a research fellow at the Department of Urban Sociology and Sociology of Space at Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany.

This book explores new forms of tourism in urban areas with their social, political, cultural, architectural and economic implications. By investigating various showcases of New Urban Tourism, the book offers insights into power relations and connections between tourism and cityscapes in various socio-spatial settings around the world.

1. The Power of New Urban Tourism: An Introduction. Part I: Consuming the City: New Urban Tourism in Urban Centres and Metropolitan Peripheries. 2. Bohemia and the New Urban Tourism. 3. "Tourist Platformisation": New Urban Tourism in Milan. 4. Peer-to-Peer Tourist Accommodation and its Impact on the Local Housing Market in Berlin Neighbourhoods. 5. Redefining a Mature Destination as a Low-Cost Neighbourhood: Relations Between Socio-Spatial Segregation in Torremolinos and Urban Tourism in Malaga, Spain. 6. Tourism in a Peripheral Territory in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon: The Case of Almada. Part II: Protest and Frictions: Contesting New Urban Tourism. 7. Sustaining a Political System: New Urban Tourism in Cuba and Related Conflicts. 8. Embattled Consumptionscape of Tourism: Networked Urban Contention Against Inbound Tourist Shoppers in Hong Kong. 9. Between Political Protest and Tourism Gentrification: Impacts of New Urban Tourism in Hamburg's Schanzenviertel. 10. The Empty Boxes of Venice: Overtourism-Conflicts, Politicisation and Activism. 11. Powerful Ways of (not) Knowing New Urban Tourism Conflicts: Thin Problematisation as Limitation for Tourism Governance in Berlin. Part III: Representations and Identities: Hopes and Challenges for New Urban Tourism. 12. Shock of the New: The Rhetoric of Global Urban Tourism in the Rebuild of Christchurch, New Zealand. 13. New Urban Tourism in the Post-Conflict City: Sharing Experiences of Violence and Peace in West Belfast. 14. The Race, Class and Gender of Websites: Marketing and Mythologising Urban Africa Online. 15. New Urban Tourism and the Right to Complain: Tourism as a Catchall for Urban Problems. 16. Science Driven Mobility as a Form of New Urban Tourism: Insights from Student and Research Internationalisation in Lund, Sweden. Part IV: Concluding Remarks. 17. So, what is new about New Urban Tourism?