Bas Spierings
Biographic Data
| ID | 227850 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bas Spierings |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bas |
| FAMILY NAME | Spierings |
| SIGNATURE | SPIERINGS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 153 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Embodiment as an uncharted territory of consumption
This roundtable takes an embodied approach to consumption, treating the body as an active medium through which consumption is organized, experienced and governed, rather than as a residual site of inscription. Drawing on perspectives from sociology, geography and digital media studies, the contributors discuss how sensory and affective bodily experiences influence everyday consumption in various contexts, from hunger and satiety to walking and ‘s…
Living by packaging’
The role of frame resonance in resistance to touristification
Recent studies on urban policy responses to increasing tourism have moved beyond the physical impact of tourism to also include the way tourism is framed by social movements.This paper contributes to this line of research with a focus on frame resonance: the extent to which frames strike a responsive chord with the public in general and policymakers in particular.We introduce a specific form of frame amplification through cultural resonance; the …
Geographies of touristification of consumption spaces
This study proposes a framework to measure touristification of consumption spaces, consisting of concentration of retail capital, business displacement and standardization of the consumption landscape. This framework is tested using business registration data and rent price estimates for consumption spaces in Amsterdam between 2005 and 2020. Touristification emerges from concentrations of retail capital and standardization, but occurs without cau…
I refer to it as throwing wads ”
As multifunctional places that combine shopping and hospitality with public space and residential functions, urban consumption spaces are sites where different normative orders surface and sometimes clash. In Amsterdam, such a clash emerged over touristification of consumption spaces, eroding place attachment for local residents and urging the city government to take action. Based on policy analysis and interviews with entrepreneurs and key infor…
Network-diversification and trust-building strategies of transnational migrant entrepreneurs
This article explores how African entrepreneurs in Guangzhou manage to survive in an environment that is characterized by harsh competition and major institutional restrictions. Combining literature on social networks theory with the mixed embeddedness approach, this paper presents an analysis of African entrepreneurial trajectories as a transnational and locally embedded process through exploring networking and trust-building strategies that Afr…
Crowd-pleasing, niche playing and gentrifying
Touristification of consumption spaces describes a process in which retail and hospitality businesses adapt to the tourist demand, eroding place attachment among local residents. While this is an important cause of resistance to tourism, little is known about the mechanisms that drive or mediate this process. We address this gap by interviewing entrepreneurs in Amsterdam. We found three distinct areas in close proximity where entrepreneurs respon…
Nigerian migrants, daily life domains and bordering processes in the city of Guangzhou
This paper investigates how interrelated processes of bordering – i.e. delimitation, interface and affirmation – work out in domains of Nigerian migrants’ daily life in Guangzhou. The results reveal that migrants make use of marketplaces as interface platforms for economic exchange and cooperation with Chinese entrepreneurs, yet within a highly delimited playing field and with affirmation of cultural differences. They find residence in the city, …
Places “for the gram”
Commercial gentrification in contemporary cities is fed by the Instagrammable nature of a growing number and variety of consumption spaces. A prominent example is the rise of specialty coffee bars (SCBs), with their offline spreading and the impact of online ‘clickable aesthetics’ via Instagram. In-depth interviews and Instagram go-alongs with 17 female millennials in Seoul revealed that SCBs are often visited for their Instagrammable aesthetics …
Leisure mobilities, shopping routes and sensescapes
This paper analyses embodied experiences of leisure shoppers combining walking and cycling practices in historical city centres. From the perspective of youth, embodied practices and experiences along the Oude Gracht street, an important shopping route in the city centre of Utrecht, are investigated. Based on walk-along interviews with pedestrians and seated interviews with cyclists, the paper reveals leisure shopping as a multimodal exercise wit…
The spatial configuration and publicness of the university campus
Tourist-resident interaction affects mutual understanding but defined by social distance
This paper examines the interrelationships of social distance, tourist-resident interaction and mutual understanding between mainland Chinese tourists and residents in an urban destination of Hong Kong. Social distance affects tourist-resident interaction that predicts their mutual understanding for both tourists and residents are tested. A total of 416 tourist questionnaires and 315 resident questionnaires were obtained. The results show that qu…
Digital marketing activities by Dutch place management partnerships
In most shopping areas, there are place management partnerships (PMPs) that aim to increase the competitiveness of the area. Collective digital marketing activities, such as the adoption and update of collective websites and social media pages, provide opportunities in this regard. Currently, the extent to which digital marketing activities are being employed varies widely among PMPs. However, studies investigating the factors that influence the …
Different urban settings affect multi-dimensional tourist-resident interactions
City centre areas of many tourism destinations are increasingly overcrowding but two tourism development trends are to some extent counterbalancing the crowding phenomenon. Firstly, the decentralisation of tourists aiming to avoid large crowds and product standardisation and, therefore, visiting sites away from the city centre, including suburban areas. Secondly, the rise of 'new urban tourism' which means that tourists seek to experience authent…
It just didn't really happen’
This paper explores the lived space of entrepreneurial urbanism in Ørestad, a 1990s mega-project still under development on the edge of Copenhagen. Drawing upon in-depth interviews, interactive map-making and critical discourse analysis, it shows that imaginaries of urban competition, place branding and cosmopolitanism have only superficially been internalized by residents as part of their lived space in Ørestad, even revealing contradictory ever…
Living in a 'free jail
This paper shows how asylum seeker accommodation produces a politics of discomfort among both asylum seekers as well as local residents. The paper compares two collective asylum centres located in the city of Augsburg, Germany, one of which is a nationally renowned refugee integration project, the ‘Grandhotel Cosmopolis’, the other, a state-run asylum centre. Data was obtained through participant observation and semi-structured interviews between…
Dynamics of protest and participation in the governance of tourism in Barcelona
The trend of private interest groups influencing governance processes has recently gained prominence in the urban tourism domain, along with a strong increase in resident protests against the tourism sector and policy in many urban destinations worldwide. However, governance of tourism studies have so far paid only marginal attention to protests taking place ‘outside’ the formal governance arena. Moreover, relatively limited attention has been pa…
The Grandhotel Cosmopolis – a concrete utopia? Reflections on the mediated and lived geographies of asylum accommodation
This paper argues that perceptions towards asylum seekers are shaped by both media representation as well as lived experiences in and around asylum accommodation. Drawing on Lefebvre’s spatial triad, the paper aims at disentangling the conceived, perceived and lived spaces of asylum accommodation in order to understand asylum accommodation as a space that is produced and re-produced in everyday life. The paper discusses the case of the Grandhotel…
Where day trippers and tourists go
This article compares the spatio-temporal concentration and dispersion of day trippers and tourists from Shenzhen as well as from the rest of Mainland China in Hong Kong using Weibo check-in data. The results show that hotspots of visitors from the rest of Mainland China are mostly concentrated in downtown areas, while visitors from Shenzhen also generate hotspots closer to the border. The activity pattern of day trippers is more spatially disper…
Stretching the Border
This article examines the practices and experiences of Ukrainian border crossers who are engaged in informal small‐scale economic practices, namely shopping and petty trade, at the Medyka border crossing in Poland. By examining the societal, network and territorial embeddedness of the economic activities of these border crossers, we aim to shed light on the practices and experiences that form part of their daily lives. For many, the presence of t…
Uneven geographies of asylum accommodation
Asylum accommodation is held to isolate asylum seekers spatially and socially from the majority population in host societies. Little attention has been devoted to variation in asylum accommodation at the level of the everyday. Central to this paper is the argument that variation between localities, as well as variation on the level of the built environment creates ‘uneven geographies of asylum accommodation’. The paper theorizes that more ‘open’ …
Place Image Formation and Cross‐Border Shopping
This study focuses on differences in place image formation between cross‐border shoppers who visit the bazaar in the Polish part of the border‐crossing town of Frankfurt–Oder/Słubice. By examining the German–Polish border context and the historical and regional particularities of this shopping destination, our qualitative analysis reveals differences in place image formation between two groups of German border crossers: locals from Frankfurt–Oder…
Ownership and Membership
City governments worldwide have embraced urban agriculture, including community gardening, for the multiple societal benefits which they promise. Many academic studies have also emphasised and celebrated the benefits of community gardening but the debate surrounding it increasingly takes a more critical stance by also paying attention to the societal drawbacks. This paper aims to further enrich this more critical debate by analysing processes of …
Socio-cultural proximity, daily life and shopping tourism in the Dutch-German border region
n Contains fulltext :\n 167410.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Parallel Lives on the Plaza
In the last two decades, many city center plazas in the Netherlands have been redeveloped to become more attractive “meeting spaces” and not merely profitable “market places.” This article analyzes the use and experience of Schouwburgplein, an urban plaza in Rotterdam, as meeting space by young Dutch women of Turkish and Moroccan descent. Our analysis reveals a paradoxical interplay between “social comfort” and “social control” in public space. T…
Retracing trajectories
Socio-cultural proximity, daily life and shopping tourism in the Dutch-German border region
n Contains fulltext :\n 167410.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Shopping, Borders and Unfamiliarity
National borders are often considered to constrain the international flow of products, services, people and capital. However, borders and differences between countries could also promote cross‐border mobility. This contribution investigates what discourages and encourages cross‐border shopping mobility. This is done by categorising differences between countries into more ‘rational differences’ on the one hand and more ‘emotional differences’ on t…
Encounters with Otherness
While the European Union aims to diminish and remove borders as obstacles for integration, state borders continue to mark differences between countries. People living in borderlands may feel near to and familiar with “the other side” but far away and unfamiliar at the same time. Scrutinizing the concept of (un)familiarity promises intriguing insights into understanding how people perceive and interpret differences and similarities in borderlands,…
Places “for the gram”
Commercial gentrification in contemporary cities is fed by the Instagrammable nature of a growing number and variety of consumption spaces. A prominent example is the rise of specialty coffee bars (SCBs), with their offline spreading and the impact of online ‘clickable aesthetics’ via Instagram. In-depth interviews and Instagram go-alongs with 17 female millennials in Seoul revealed that SCBs are often visited for their Instagrammable aesthetics …
Uneven geographies of asylum accommodation
Asylum accommodation is held to isolate asylum seekers spatially and socially from the majority population in host societies. Little attention has been devoted to variation in asylum accommodation at the level of the everyday. Central to this paper is the argument that variation between localities, as well as variation on the level of the built environment creates ‘uneven geographies of asylum accommodation’. The paper theorizes that more ‘open’ …
Parallel Lives on the Plaza
In the last two decades, many city center plazas in the Netherlands have been redeveloped to become more attractive “meeting spaces” and not merely profitable “market places.” This article analyzes the use and experience of Schouwburgplein, an urban plaza in Rotterdam, as meeting space by young Dutch women of Turkish and Moroccan descent. Our analysis reveals a paradoxical interplay between “social comfort” and “social control” in public space. T…
Consumer mobility and the communication of difference
The current debate on consumption and retailing represents shoppers as highly mobile and looking for different experiences. In an attempt to find satisfaction, shoppers are assumed to explore many places and countries. It is in cross‐border regions that large functional, physical, and socio‐cultural differences can be experienced in a relatively small area. Such differences could make crossing national borders appealing as well as unappealing. Th…
It just didn't really happen’
This paper explores the lived space of entrepreneurial urbanism in Ørestad, a 1990s mega-project still under development on the edge of Copenhagen. Drawing upon in-depth interviews, interactive map-making and critical discourse analysis, it shows that imaginaries of urban competition, place branding and cosmopolitanism have only superficially been internalized by residents as part of their lived space in Ørestad, even revealing contradictory ever…
The Grandhotel Cosmopolis – a concrete utopia? Reflections on the mediated and lived geographies of asylum accommodation
This paper argues that perceptions towards asylum seekers are shaped by both media representation as well as lived experiences in and around asylum accommodation. Drawing on Lefebvre’s spatial triad, the paper aims at disentangling the conceived, perceived and lived spaces of asylum accommodation in order to understand asylum accommodation as a space that is produced and re-produced in everyday life. The paper discusses the case of the Grandhotel…
Where day trippers and tourists go
This article compares the spatio-temporal concentration and dispersion of day trippers and tourists from Shenzhen as well as from the rest of Mainland China in Hong Kong using Weibo check-in data. The results show that hotspots of visitors from the rest of Mainland China are mostly concentrated in downtown areas, while visitors from Shenzhen also generate hotspots closer to the border. The activity pattern of day trippers is more spatially disper…
Crowd-pleasing, niche playing and gentrifying
Touristification of consumption spaces describes a process in which retail and hospitality businesses adapt to the tourist demand, eroding place attachment among local residents. While this is an important cause of resistance to tourism, little is known about the mechanisms that drive or mediate this process. We address this gap by interviewing entrepreneurs in Amsterdam. We found three distinct areas in close proximity where entrepreneurs respon…
Different urban settings affect multi-dimensional tourist-resident interactions
City centre areas of many tourism destinations are increasingly overcrowding but two tourism development trends are to some extent counterbalancing the crowding phenomenon. Firstly, the decentralisation of tourists aiming to avoid large crowds and product standardisation and, therefore, visiting sites away from the city centre, including suburban areas. Secondly, the rise of 'new urban tourism' which means that tourists seek to experience authent…
Living in a 'free jail
This paper shows how asylum seeker accommodation produces a politics of discomfort among both asylum seekers as well as local residents. The paper compares two collective asylum centres located in the city of Augsburg, Germany, one of which is a nationally renowned refugee integration project, the ‘Grandhotel Cosmopolis’, the other, a state-run asylum centre. Data was obtained through participant observation and semi-structured interviews between…
Stretching the Border
This article examines the practices and experiences of Ukrainian border crossers who are engaged in informal small‐scale economic practices, namely shopping and petty trade, at the Medyka border crossing in Poland. By examining the societal, network and territorial embeddedness of the economic activities of these border crossers, we aim to shed light on the practices and experiences that form part of their daily lives. For many, the presence of t…
Ownership and Membership
City governments worldwide have embraced urban agriculture, including community gardening, for the multiple societal benefits which they promise. Many academic studies have also emphasised and celebrated the benefits of community gardening but the debate surrounding it increasingly takes a more critical stance by also paying attention to the societal drawbacks. This paper aims to further enrich this more critical debate by analysing processes of …
Travellers and their journeys
In this article it is argued that ‘the journey’—as an embodied form of travel from one place to the other—is a fruitful analytical starting point to bring migration and tourism studies in closer dialogue with each other. With our focus on the ‘en route’ behaviour and experiences of two prototypical mobile figures (the transient migrant and the backpacker), we go beyond the usual categorical divisions of human mobility based on temporality (tempor…
Living by packaging’
Leisure mobilities, shopping routes and sensescapes
This paper analyses embodied experiences of leisure shoppers combining walking and cycling practices in historical city centres. From the perspective of youth, embodied practices and experiences along the Oude Gracht street, an important shopping route in the city centre of Utrecht, are investigated. Based on walk-along interviews with pedestrians and seated interviews with cyclists, the paper reveals leisure shopping as a multimodal exercise wit…
Fixing missing links in shopping routes
Economic Flows, Spatial Folds and Intra‐urban Borders
The aim of recent redevelopment plans and projects for European city centres is to remove intra‐urban ‘borders’ and thereby to promote the profitability of cities. Consumer mobility within city centres is encouraged to facilitate flows of consumption capital and generate consumer spending. Contextualised by international border studies and related EU integration policies, the Van Heekplein redevelopment project in Enschede, the Netherlands, is di…
Nigerian migrants, daily life domains and bordering processes in the city of Guangzhou
This paper investigates how interrelated processes of bordering – i.e. delimitation, interface and affirmation – work out in domains of Nigerian migrants’ daily life in Guangzhou. The results reveal that migrants make use of marketplaces as interface platforms for economic exchange and cooperation with Chinese entrepreneurs, yet within a highly delimited playing field and with affirmation of cultural differences. They find residence in the city, …
Place Image Formation and Cross‐Border Shopping
This study focuses on differences in place image formation between cross‐border shoppers who visit the bazaar in the Polish part of the border‐crossing town of Frankfurt–Oder/Słubice. By examining the German–Polish border context and the historical and regional particularities of this shopping destination, our qualitative analysis reveals differences in place image formation between two groups of German border crossers: locals from Frankfurt–Oder…
The Return of Regulation in the Shopping Landscape? Reflecting on the Persistent Power of City Centre Preservation Within Shifting Retail Planning Ideologies
Since the construction of the hierarchical retail system in the postwar period, the main goal of Dutch retail planning has been to preserve city centres and the complementary shopping centres. National guidelines restricted the development of large‐scale retail locations on peripheral sites. Considering this restrictive planning ideology since the 1970s, the recent proposal to deregulate and decentralise retail planning came as a surprise and cau…
The Return of Regulation in the Shopping Landscape? Reflecting on the Persistent Power of City Centre Preservation Within Shifting Retail Planning Ideologies
Since the construction of the hierarchical retail system in the postwar period, the main goal of Dutch retail planning has been to preserve city centres and the complementary shopping centres. National guidelines restricted the development of large‐scale retail locations on peripheral sites. Considering this restrictive planning ideology since the 1970s, the recent proposal to deregulate and decentralise retail planning came as a surprise and cau…
Shopping, Borders and Unfamiliarity
National borders are often considered to constrain the international flow of products, services, people and capital. However, borders and differences between countries could also promote cross‐border mobility. This contribution investigates what discourages and encourages cross‐border shopping mobility. This is done by categorising differences between countries into more ‘rational differences’ on the one hand and more ‘emotional differences’ on t…
Consumer mobility and the communication of difference
The current debate on consumption and retailing represents shoppers as highly mobile and looking for different experiences. In an attempt to find satisfaction, shoppers are assumed to explore many places and countries. It is in cross‐border regions that large functional, physical, and socio‐cultural differences can be experienced in a relatively small area. Such differences could make crossing national borders appealing as well as unappealing. Th…
Economic Flows, Spatial Folds and Intra‐urban Borders
The aim of recent redevelopment plans and projects for European city centres is to remove intra‐urban ‘borders’ and thereby to promote the profitability of cities. Consumer mobility within city centres is encouraged to facilitate flows of consumption capital and generate consumer spending. Contextualised by international border studies and related EU integration policies, the Van Heekplein redevelopment project in Enschede, the Netherlands, is di…
Retracing trajectories
Fixing missing links in shopping routes
Travellers and their journeys
In this article it is argued that ‘the journey’—as an embodied form of travel from one place to the other—is a fruitful analytical starting point to bring migration and tourism studies in closer dialogue with each other. With our focus on the ‘en route’ behaviour and experiences of two prototypical mobile figures (the transient migrant and the backpacker), we go beyond the usual categorical divisions of human mobility based on temporality (tempor…
Encounters with Otherness
While the European Union aims to diminish and remove borders as obstacles for integration, state borders continue to mark differences between countries. People living in borderlands may feel near to and familiar with “the other side” but far away and unfamiliar at the same time. Scrutinizing the concept of (un)familiarity promises intriguing insights into understanding how people perceive and interpret differences and similarities in borderlands,…
Parallel Lives on the Plaza
In the last two decades, many city center plazas in the Netherlands have been redeveloped to become more attractive “meeting spaces” and not merely profitable “market places.” This article analyzes the use and experience of Schouwburgplein, an urban plaza in Rotterdam, as meeting space by young Dutch women of Turkish and Moroccan descent. Our analysis reveals a paradoxical interplay between “social comfort” and “social control” in public space. T…
Socio-cultural proximity, daily life and shopping tourism in the Dutch-German border region
n Contains fulltext :\n 167410.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Uneven geographies of asylum accommodation
Asylum accommodation is held to isolate asylum seekers spatially and socially from the majority population in host societies. Little attention has been devoted to variation in asylum accommodation at the level of the everyday. Central to this paper is the argument that variation between localities, as well as variation on the level of the built environment creates ‘uneven geographies of asylum accommodation’. The paper theorizes that more ‘open’ …
Place Image Formation and Cross‐Border Shopping
This study focuses on differences in place image formation between cross‐border shoppers who visit the bazaar in the Polish part of the border‐crossing town of Frankfurt–Oder/Słubice. By examining the German–Polish border context and the historical and regional particularities of this shopping destination, our qualitative analysis reveals differences in place image formation between two groups of German border crossers: locals from Frankfurt–Oder…
Ownership and Membership
City governments worldwide have embraced urban agriculture, including community gardening, for the multiple societal benefits which they promise. Many academic studies have also emphasised and celebrated the benefits of community gardening but the debate surrounding it increasingly takes a more critical stance by also paying attention to the societal drawbacks. This paper aims to further enrich this more critical debate by analysing processes of …
Dynamics of protest and participation in the governance of tourism in Barcelona
The trend of private interest groups influencing governance processes has recently gained prominence in the urban tourism domain, along with a strong increase in resident protests against the tourism sector and policy in many urban destinations worldwide. However, governance of tourism studies have so far paid only marginal attention to protests taking place ‘outside’ the formal governance arena. Moreover, relatively limited attention has been pa…
The Grandhotel Cosmopolis – a concrete utopia? Reflections on the mediated and lived geographies of asylum accommodation
This paper argues that perceptions towards asylum seekers are shaped by both media representation as well as lived experiences in and around asylum accommodation. Drawing on Lefebvre’s spatial triad, the paper aims at disentangling the conceived, perceived and lived spaces of asylum accommodation in order to understand asylum accommodation as a space that is produced and re-produced in everyday life. The paper discusses the case of the Grandhotel…
Where day trippers and tourists go
This article compares the spatio-temporal concentration and dispersion of day trippers and tourists from Shenzhen as well as from the rest of Mainland China in Hong Kong using Weibo check-in data. The results show that hotspots of visitors from the rest of Mainland China are mostly concentrated in downtown areas, while visitors from Shenzhen also generate hotspots closer to the border. The activity pattern of day trippers is more spatially disper…
Stretching the Border
This article examines the practices and experiences of Ukrainian border crossers who are engaged in informal small‐scale economic practices, namely shopping and petty trade, at the Medyka border crossing in Poland. By examining the societal, network and territorial embeddedness of the economic activities of these border crossers, we aim to shed light on the practices and experiences that form part of their daily lives. For many, the presence of t…
It just didn't really happen’
This paper explores the lived space of entrepreneurial urbanism in Ørestad, a 1990s mega-project still under development on the edge of Copenhagen. Drawing upon in-depth interviews, interactive map-making and critical discourse analysis, it shows that imaginaries of urban competition, place branding and cosmopolitanism have only superficially been internalized by residents as part of their lived space in Ørestad, even revealing contradictory ever…
Living in a 'free jail
This paper shows how asylum seeker accommodation produces a politics of discomfort among both asylum seekers as well as local residents. The paper compares two collective asylum centres located in the city of Augsburg, Germany, one of which is a nationally renowned refugee integration project, the ‘Grandhotel Cosmopolis’, the other, a state-run asylum centre. Data was obtained through participant observation and semi-structured interviews between…
The spatial configuration and publicness of the university campus
Tourist-resident interaction affects mutual understanding but defined by social distance
This paper examines the interrelationships of social distance, tourist-resident interaction and mutual understanding between mainland Chinese tourists and residents in an urban destination of Hong Kong. Social distance affects tourist-resident interaction that predicts their mutual understanding for both tourists and residents are tested. A total of 416 tourist questionnaires and 315 resident questionnaires were obtained. The results show that qu…
Digital marketing activities by Dutch place management partnerships
In most shopping areas, there are place management partnerships (PMPs) that aim to increase the competitiveness of the area. Collective digital marketing activities, such as the adoption and update of collective websites and social media pages, provide opportunities in this regard. Currently, the extent to which digital marketing activities are being employed varies widely among PMPs. However, studies investigating the factors that influence the …
Different urban settings affect multi-dimensional tourist-resident interactions
City centre areas of many tourism destinations are increasingly overcrowding but two tourism development trends are to some extent counterbalancing the crowding phenomenon. Firstly, the decentralisation of tourists aiming to avoid large crowds and product standardisation and, therefore, visiting sites away from the city centre, including suburban areas. Secondly, the rise of 'new urban tourism' which means that tourists seek to experience authent…
Network-diversification and trust-building strategies of transnational migrant entrepreneurs
This article explores how African entrepreneurs in Guangzhou manage to survive in an environment that is characterized by harsh competition and major institutional restrictions. Combining literature on social networks theory with the mixed embeddedness approach, this paper presents an analysis of African entrepreneurial trajectories as a transnational and locally embedded process through exploring networking and trust-building strategies that Afr…
Crowd-pleasing, niche playing and gentrifying
Touristification of consumption spaces describes a process in which retail and hospitality businesses adapt to the tourist demand, eroding place attachment among local residents. While this is an important cause of resistance to tourism, little is known about the mechanisms that drive or mediate this process. We address this gap by interviewing entrepreneurs in Amsterdam. We found three distinct areas in close proximity where entrepreneurs respon…
Sociology (24 works) · Geography (21 works) · Political science (20 works) · Business (16 works) · Law (12 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Tourism (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works)