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

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, characterized by exclusionary and resource-degrading agency, which need taming. For others, it remains genuinely...

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Autores: Milano, Claudio, Novelli, Marina, Russo, Antonio Paolo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
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Palabra clave:Moviments de protesta
Sobreturisme
Protest movements
Overtourism
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spelling Anti-tourism activism and the inconvenient truths about mass tourism, touristification and overtourismMilano, ClaudioNovelli, MarinaRusso, Antonio PaoloMoviments de protestaSobreturismeProtest movementsOvertourismOver 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, characterized 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.Taylor & Francis2024info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/228183Articles publicats en revistes (Antropologia Social)reponame:Dipòsit Digital de la UBinstname:Universidad de BarcelonaInglésReproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2024.2391388Tourism Geographies, 2024, vol. 26, num. 8, p. 1313-1337https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2024.2391388(c) Taylor & Francis, 2024info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/2281832026-05-27T06:46:51Z
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title Anti-tourism activism and the inconvenient truths about mass tourism, touristification and overtourism
spellingShingle Anti-tourism activism and the inconvenient truths about mass tourism, touristification and overtourism
Milano, Claudio
Moviments de protesta
Sobreturisme
Protest movements
Overtourism
title_short Anti-tourism activism and the inconvenient truths about mass tourism, touristification and overtourism
title_full Anti-tourism activism and the inconvenient truths about mass tourism, touristification and overtourism
title_fullStr Anti-tourism activism and the inconvenient truths about mass tourism, touristification and overtourism
title_full_unstemmed Anti-tourism activism and the inconvenient truths about mass tourism, touristification and overtourism
title_sort Anti-tourism activism and the inconvenient truths about mass tourism, touristification and overtourism
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Milano, Claudio
Novelli, Marina
Russo, Antonio Paolo
author Milano, Claudio
author_facet Milano, Claudio
Novelli, Marina
Russo, Antonio Paolo
author_role author
author2 Novelli, Marina
Russo, Antonio Paolo
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author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Moviments de protesta
Sobreturisme
Protest movements
Overtourism
topic Moviments de protesta
Sobreturisme
Protest movements
Overtourism
description 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, characterized 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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Tourism Geographies, 2024, vol. 26, num. 8, p. 1313-1337
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2024.2391388
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