Montserrat Crespi-Vallbona
Biographic Data
| ID | 301959 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Montserrat Crespi-Vallbona |
| GIVEN NAMES | Montserrat |
| FAMILY NAME | Crespi-Vallbona |
| SIGNATURE | CRESPI-VALLBONA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8267-4786 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Embedded entrepreneurship for local product valorisation
Entrepreneurship is basic to ensure the organisation and maintenance of food events. These events reinforce the identity of local communities and improve the destination's competitiveness. Considering this reality, this research aims to analyse the management processes of the Bufet d’Orís potato market to understand the valorisation and status of this traditional product in the context of a locally embedded food system. Based on an exploratory qu…
Food at the Hearth
This paper analyses the changes and continuity in the preparation and rituals of escudella i carn d'olla , a manifestation of traditional Catalan cuisine. Based on interviews with 27 ordinary citizens from different generations, the research explores how they experience, elaborate, and emotionally relate to escudella i carn d'olla , and what generational and gender patterns can be identified in these relationships. Results show that one of the mo…
Retracted
Purpose This research analyses the perceptions of expatriates, digital nomads, and academic tourists regarding different aspects of their daily lives in the city of Barcelona, including property rental, tourism pressure, traditional commerce, social interaction, and use of public space. These groups share similar characteristics, such as a high level of education, medium to medium-high purchasing power, and the decision to stay for a long or semi…
Attachment and (in)securities. Threats to the notion of rootedness in neighbourhood space in Barcelona
Lockdown due to Covid-19 reinforced the notion of proximity in the provision of well-being and the everyday care. The limitations on mobility meant the (re)discovery of neighbourhood life and of fellow residents. The neighbourhood was once again shown as a space of roots where shared loyalties and social identities were formed and reinforced social cohesion and generated mutual support networks in response to an unprecedented situation such as th…
Resistencias en la transformación de los espacios industriales en Barcelona
El artículo desgrana algunos de los efectos de la transformación de los espacios industriales en Barcelona desde la segunda mitad de los años ochenta del siglo XX. Describe las fases de la gestión del patrimonio industrial en la ciudad condal desde los inicios de la democracia y analiza las resistencias y acciones ciudadanas que se originan en el contexto de las contradicciones entre la identidad colectiva, el desarrollo local y la proyección glo…
Resistances in the transformation of industrial spaces in Barcelona
The article addresses some effects of the transformation of industrial spaces in Barcelona since the second half of the 1980s. It describes the phases of industrial heritage management in the city since the beginning of democracy and analyzes citizen resistances and actions arising in the context of the contradictions between collective identity, local development, and the global projection of the city that the transformation of industrial space …
Tourism and coexistence between branded and natural wines
Citizen actions in touristic neighbourhoods
Touristification transforms the urban life of many tourist destination cities, leading to changes in the uses and values of city real estate, and generating a displacement of the most vulnerable sectors of the population. The objective of this research is the analysis of citizens’ strategies for facing this transformation process, considering that the associative and protest tradition in neighbourhoods can dampen (and this is our hypothesis) the …
Food shining amid nature
Purpose While gastronomy has become a major tourist attraction for rural territories, its study in protected areas remains underexplored. These places use their cultural and natural heritage and landscape, as well as their local identity, to charm visitors. Gastronomy plays a key role in this, and restaurants do their best to promote local food products. The aim of this article is to use a qualitative and case study approach to analyze the market…
Sustainable governance versus airbnbification. The case of Barcelona
Popular tourist destinations face major governance challenges if their goal is to balance and reconcile the interests of different stakeholders, including companies, residents and tourists. Since Barcelona hosted the Olympic Games in 1992, the flow of tourists has not slowed down and, as a result, the number of accommodation places has grown steadily. Even the owners of residential properties have started offering their homes to visitors, a pheno…
Community factors affecting residents’ support for tourism
This study proposes a model including several antecedents (i.e. perceived destination social responsibility, community satisfaction, emotional solidarity and place attachment) to describe local residents' support for tourism. Hypotheses were tested employing survey data collected from 535 residents in an urban tourist destination in Spain. The results of a structural equation modelling approach confirmed all hypotheses showing significant and pos…
Barcelona hotel employees and their conception of fair work. An exploratory study
Purpose Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 5 and 8, respectively, indicate that decent work and gender equality are challenges that business organizations must face in order to achieve the social well-being and sustainable development of communities. Considering these goals, the present article aims to define the concept of fair work and examine the current degree of knowledge among staff in the hotel sector in Barcelona about the indicators of …
How do locals perceive the touristification of their food market? The case of Barcelona's La Boqueria
Overtourism has become a major issue of concern in many popular venues, including several cities like Barcelona. In this study, in order to better comprehend reactions towards overtourism, we analyze the perceptions of residents who regularly shop at Barcelona's La Boqueria towards the growing crowds of tourists who visit the same venue. The study aims to acknowledge the evolution over time of locals' aversion or support regarding the touristific…
How Do Barcelona and Madrid Cope with the Impacts of Globalisation
The central aim of this article is to describe the state of art of the impact of globalisation on Barcelona and Madrid (Spain). It especially focuses on the transformations of their historic centres, the most accessible and highly contested spaces, and the reactions of their citizen movements and city councils. It begins by analysing the gentrification process. It then shows how these cities were even more intensively transformed by commercial ge…
The destination attachment cycle. The case of academic tourism
Tourist satisfaction is a crucial issue for managers of tourism destinations. Scholars have analysed the motivations for academic tourism, but there is a lack of research on the emotional bonds with the destination. This study confirms the existence of a cycle with different stages of attachment and detachment with regard to destination, based on four phases: enchantment, coexistence, fatigue and nostalgia. These phases are analysed in relation t…
The narrow margin of urban protest art
There is broad consensus regarding the fact that street art is a form of social, political and cultural protest and critique. However, rather than one single form, street art consists of a wide range of complex and contradictory styles featuring a diversity of interests, derivations and conflicts with underlying factors of both a structural and contextual nature. Taking as examples the cases of Pinacoteca a Cel Obert and Pinta Malasaña, in Barcel…
Gobernanza sostenible en los espacios públicos
La globalización y la neoliberalización de la economía han transformado los espacios urbanos y su gobernanza. La participación activa y las redes sociales en el diseño y uso de los espacios públicos son la base de los nuevos modelos de gobernanza sostenible. Esto se observa en el caso de estudio de Pinacoteca a Cel Obert. Un proyecto que se impulsa en Barcelona (España) desde la administración pública, con la colaboración del tejido económico y c…
Perspectiva de género en la educación universitaria
Como recoge el Objetivo de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) número 5, diferentes normativas y la literatura científica, la formación de los directivos en perspectiva de género es necesidad y requisito para conseguir unas organizaciones que eliminen las normas masculinas invisibles y transformen las relaciones tradicionales de género. Así, uno de los desafíos que afronta la sociedad actual es formar y concienciar a los futuros ejecutivos en la relevanc…
Gender Equality Programs in the accommodation sector
The presence of invisible male standards in the organizations determines their culture and their functional and operational policies. Therefore, the current agendas are determined by the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (UN, 2015). SGD number 5 refers to gender equality. Therefore, one of the main challenges facing the contemporary society is to achieve the gender equality in the organizational structures. Considering this defiance and this need,…
Satisfying experiences
Cultural heritage has become a primary means for attracting visitors to cities, and a source of revenue through the design of guided tours that offer satisfying experiences at heritage sites. The aim of this study is to analyse participation, hedonism, knowledge, local culture and nostalgia as determinants of these experiences. A sample of 568 international tourists responded to a survey after taking a guided tour of Barcelona City Hall (Spain) a…
Street art as a sustainable tool in mature tourist destinations
Tourism is one of the activities most urgently in need of innovation and creativity to keep the boom going. This paper seeks to understand how mature destinations and tourism managers devise innovative and sustainable solutions in everyday practice. Current trends in demand call for active experiences that generate emotions, stir up feelings, present content, and provide a dose of pleasure. The case study presented here is an innovative street ar…
La transformación y gentrificación turística del espacio urbano. El caso de la Barceloneta (Barcelona)
Las áreas urbanas con atractivo turístico viven grandes transformaciones. Uno de los barrios más significativos de Barcelona, histórico emplazamiento de los marineros de la ciudad, es la Barceloneta. En los últimos tiempos, su capacidad para atraer turismo gastronómico y de "sol y playa" ha generado cambios importantes en su estructura social y económica. Para este artículo se observan en tal conversión los elementos que configuran el sistema tur…
Urban food markets in the context of a tourist attraction - La Boqueria market in Barcelona, Spain
In the last few decades, local governments have looked at developing their cities to increase their attractiveness for tourism consumption. Urban and tourism planners have focused their attention on adapting different local attractions to target the tourist visit and provide them with recreation and entertainment. By consuming locally sourced traditional or farmed products, tourists adopt the values associated with local identity codes. This expe…
Food markets from a local dimension – La Boqueria (Barcelona, Spain)
Los mercados de abastos y las ciudades turisticas
consecuencias sobre sta. Los casos de Barcelona y Madrid nos sirven para ilustrar esta realidad. Concretamente, los mercados de La Boquera, Santa Caterina, Barceloneta, La Princesa y Sant Antoni (para Barcelona); San Miguel, San Antn, La Cebada, Barcel, San Fernando, Antn Martn y Los Mostenses (en Madrid). Y en stos, lo que presenciamos es que los mercados de abastos presentan diversas fisonomas en funcin del grado de turistificacin que puede con…
The Meaning of Cultural Festivals
Cultural festivals and events are increasingly becoming arenas of discourse enabling people to express their views on wider cultural, social and political issues. Often the debates polarise into those advocating change and those wishing to preserve “traditional” or “local” culture in the face of modernisation and globalisation. This article analyses the discourse on cultural festivals from the perspective of stakeholders involved in traditional a…
Urban food markets in the context of a tourist attraction - La Boqueria market in Barcelona, Spain
In the last few decades, local governments have looked at developing their cities to increase their attractiveness for tourism consumption. Urban and tourism planners have focused their attention on adapting different local attractions to target the tourist visit and provide them with recreation and entertainment. By consuming locally sourced traditional or farmed products, tourists adopt the values associated with local identity codes. This expe…
Satisfying experiences
Cultural heritage has become a primary means for attracting visitors to cities, and a source of revenue through the design of guided tours that offer satisfying experiences at heritage sites. The aim of this study is to analyse participation, hedonism, knowledge, local culture and nostalgia as determinants of these experiences. A sample of 568 international tourists responded to a survey after taking a guided tour of Barcelona City Hall (Spain) a…
Community factors affecting residents’ support for tourism
This study proposes a model including several antecedents (i.e. perceived destination social responsibility, community satisfaction, emotional solidarity and place attachment) to describe local residents' support for tourism. Hypotheses were tested employing survey data collected from 535 residents in an urban tourist destination in Spain. The results of a structural equation modelling approach confirmed all hypotheses showing significant and pos…
Street art as a sustainable tool in mature tourist destinations
Tourism is one of the activities most urgently in need of innovation and creativity to keep the boom going. This paper seeks to understand how mature destinations and tourism managers devise innovative and sustainable solutions in everyday practice. Current trends in demand call for active experiences that generate emotions, stir up feelings, present content, and provide a dose of pleasure. The case study presented here is an innovative street ar…
Food markets from a local dimension – La Boqueria (Barcelona, Spain)
Los mercados de abastos y las ciudades turisticas
consecuencias sobre sta. Los casos de Barcelona y Madrid nos sirven para ilustrar esta realidad. Concretamente, los mercados de La Boquera, Santa Caterina, Barceloneta, La Princesa y Sant Antoni (para Barcelona); San Miguel, San Antn, La Cebada, Barcel, San Fernando, Antn Martn y Los Mostenses (en Madrid). Y en stos, lo que presenciamos es que los mercados de abastos presentan diversas fisonomas en funcin del grado de turistificacin que puede con…
The destination attachment cycle. The case of academic tourism
Tourist satisfaction is a crucial issue for managers of tourism destinations. Scholars have analysed the motivations for academic tourism, but there is a lack of research on the emotional bonds with the destination. This study confirms the existence of a cycle with different stages of attachment and detachment with regard to destination, based on four phases: enchantment, coexistence, fatigue and nostalgia. These phases are analysed in relation t…
The narrow margin of urban protest art
There is broad consensus regarding the fact that street art is a form of social, political and cultural protest and critique. However, rather than one single form, street art consists of a wide range of complex and contradictory styles featuring a diversity of interests, derivations and conflicts with underlying factors of both a structural and contextual nature. Taking as examples the cases of Pinacoteca a Cel Obert and Pinta Malasaña, in Barcel…
The Meaning of Cultural Festivals
Cultural festivals and events are increasingly becoming arenas of discourse enabling people to express their views on wider cultural, social and political issues. Often the debates polarise into those advocating change and those wishing to preserve “traditional” or “local” culture in the face of modernisation and globalisation. This article analyses the discourse on cultural festivals from the perspective of stakeholders involved in traditional a…
Los mercados de abastos y las ciudades turisticas
consecuencias sobre sta. Los casos de Barcelona y Madrid nos sirven para ilustrar esta realidad. Concretamente, los mercados de La Boquera, Santa Caterina, Barceloneta, La Princesa y Sant Antoni (para Barcelona); San Miguel, San Antn, La Cebada, Barcel, San Fernando, Antn Martn y Los Mostenses (en Madrid). Y en stos, lo que presenciamos es que los mercados de abastos presentan diversas fisonomas en funcin del grado de turistificacin que puede con…
Food markets from a local dimension – La Boqueria (Barcelona, Spain)
La transformación y gentrificación turística del espacio urbano. El caso de la Barceloneta (Barcelona)
Las áreas urbanas con atractivo turístico viven grandes transformaciones. Uno de los barrios más significativos de Barcelona, histórico emplazamiento de los marineros de la ciudad, es la Barceloneta. En los últimos tiempos, su capacidad para atraer turismo gastronómico y de "sol y playa" ha generado cambios importantes en su estructura social y económica. Para este artículo se observan en tal conversión los elementos que configuran el sistema tur…
Urban food markets in the context of a tourist attraction - La Boqueria market in Barcelona, Spain
In the last few decades, local governments have looked at developing their cities to increase their attractiveness for tourism consumption. Urban and tourism planners have focused their attention on adapting different local attractions to target the tourist visit and provide them with recreation and entertainment. By consuming locally sourced traditional or farmed products, tourists adopt the values associated with local identity codes. This expe…
Gender Equality Programs in the accommodation sector
The presence of invisible male standards in the organizations determines their culture and their functional and operational policies. Therefore, the current agendas are determined by the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (UN, 2015). SGD number 5 refers to gender equality. Therefore, one of the main challenges facing the contemporary society is to achieve the gender equality in the organizational structures. Considering this defiance and this need,…
Satisfying experiences
Cultural heritage has become a primary means for attracting visitors to cities, and a source of revenue through the design of guided tours that offer satisfying experiences at heritage sites. The aim of this study is to analyse participation, hedonism, knowledge, local culture and nostalgia as determinants of these experiences. A sample of 568 international tourists responded to a survey after taking a guided tour of Barcelona City Hall (Spain) a…
Street art as a sustainable tool in mature tourist destinations
Tourism is one of the activities most urgently in need of innovation and creativity to keep the boom going. This paper seeks to understand how mature destinations and tourism managers devise innovative and sustainable solutions in everyday practice. Current trends in demand call for active experiences that generate emotions, stir up feelings, present content, and provide a dose of pleasure. The case study presented here is an innovative street ar…
Perspectiva de género en la educación universitaria
Como recoge el Objetivo de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) número 5, diferentes normativas y la literatura científica, la formación de los directivos en perspectiva de género es necesidad y requisito para conseguir unas organizaciones que eliminen las normas masculinas invisibles y transformen las relaciones tradicionales de género. Así, uno de los desafíos que afronta la sociedad actual es formar y concienciar a los futuros ejecutivos en la relevanc…
How do locals perceive the touristification of their food market? The case of Barcelona's La Boqueria
Overtourism has become a major issue of concern in many popular venues, including several cities like Barcelona. In this study, in order to better comprehend reactions towards overtourism, we analyze the perceptions of residents who regularly shop at Barcelona's La Boqueria towards the growing crowds of tourists who visit the same venue. The study aims to acknowledge the evolution over time of locals' aversion or support regarding the touristific…
How Do Barcelona and Madrid Cope with the Impacts of Globalisation
The central aim of this article is to describe the state of art of the impact of globalisation on Barcelona and Madrid (Spain). It especially focuses on the transformations of their historic centres, the most accessible and highly contested spaces, and the reactions of their citizen movements and city councils. It begins by analysing the gentrification process. It then shows how these cities were even more intensively transformed by commercial ge…
The destination attachment cycle. The case of academic tourism
Tourist satisfaction is a crucial issue for managers of tourism destinations. Scholars have analysed the motivations for academic tourism, but there is a lack of research on the emotional bonds with the destination. This study confirms the existence of a cycle with different stages of attachment and detachment with regard to destination, based on four phases: enchantment, coexistence, fatigue and nostalgia. These phases are analysed in relation t…
The narrow margin of urban protest art
There is broad consensus regarding the fact that street art is a form of social, political and cultural protest and critique. However, rather than one single form, street art consists of a wide range of complex and contradictory styles featuring a diversity of interests, derivations and conflicts with underlying factors of both a structural and contextual nature. Taking as examples the cases of Pinacoteca a Cel Obert and Pinta Malasaña, in Barcel…
Gobernanza sostenible en los espacios públicos
La globalización y la neoliberalización de la economía han transformado los espacios urbanos y su gobernanza. La participación activa y las redes sociales en el diseño y uso de los espacios públicos son la base de los nuevos modelos de gobernanza sostenible. Esto se observa en el caso de estudio de Pinacoteca a Cel Obert. Un proyecto que se impulsa en Barcelona (España) desde la administración pública, con la colaboración del tejido económico y c…
Sustainable governance versus airbnbification. The case of Barcelona
Popular tourist destinations face major governance challenges if their goal is to balance and reconcile the interests of different stakeholders, including companies, residents and tourists. Since Barcelona hosted the Olympic Games in 1992, the flow of tourists has not slowed down and, as a result, the number of accommodation places has grown steadily. Even the owners of residential properties have started offering their homes to visitors, a pheno…
Community factors affecting residents’ support for tourism
This study proposes a model including several antecedents (i.e. perceived destination social responsibility, community satisfaction, emotional solidarity and place attachment) to describe local residents' support for tourism. Hypotheses were tested employing survey data collected from 535 residents in an urban tourist destination in Spain. The results of a structural equation modelling approach confirmed all hypotheses showing significant and pos…
Barcelona hotel employees and their conception of fair work. An exploratory study
Purpose Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 5 and 8, respectively, indicate that decent work and gender equality are challenges that business organizations must face in order to achieve the social well-being and sustainable development of communities. Considering these goals, the present article aims to define the concept of fair work and examine the current degree of knowledge among staff in the hotel sector in Barcelona about the indicators of …
Citizen actions in touristic neighbourhoods
Touristification transforms the urban life of many tourist destination cities, leading to changes in the uses and values of city real estate, and generating a displacement of the most vulnerable sectors of the population. The objective of this research is the analysis of citizens’ strategies for facing this transformation process, considering that the associative and protest tradition in neighbourhoods can dampen (and this is our hypothesis) the …
Food shining amid nature
Purpose While gastronomy has become a major tourist attraction for rural territories, its study in protected areas remains underexplored. These places use their cultural and natural heritage and landscape, as well as their local identity, to charm visitors. Gastronomy plays a key role in this, and restaurants do their best to promote local food products. The aim of this article is to use a qualitative and case study approach to analyze the market…
Attachment and (in)securities. Threats to the notion of rootedness in neighbourhood space in Barcelona
Lockdown due to Covid-19 reinforced the notion of proximity in the provision of well-being and the everyday care. The limitations on mobility meant the (re)discovery of neighbourhood life and of fellow residents. The neighbourhood was once again shown as a space of roots where shared loyalties and social identities were formed and reinforced social cohesion and generated mutual support networks in response to an unprecedented situation such as th…
Resistencias en la transformación de los espacios industriales en Barcelona
El artículo desgrana algunos de los efectos de la transformación de los espacios industriales en Barcelona desde la segunda mitad de los años ochenta del siglo XX. Describe las fases de la gestión del patrimonio industrial en la ciudad condal desde los inicios de la democracia y analiza las resistencias y acciones ciudadanas que se originan en el contexto de las contradicciones entre la identidad colectiva, el desarrollo local y la proyección glo…
Resistances in the transformation of industrial spaces in Barcelona
The article addresses some effects of the transformation of industrial spaces in Barcelona since the second half of the 1980s. It describes the phases of industrial heritage management in the city since the beginning of democracy and analyzes citizen resistances and actions arising in the context of the contradictions between collective identity, local development, and the global projection of the city that the transformation of industrial space …
Tourism and coexistence between branded and natural wines
Embedded entrepreneurship for local product valorisation
Entrepreneurship is basic to ensure the organisation and maintenance of food events. These events reinforce the identity of local communities and improve the destination's competitiveness. Considering this reality, this research aims to analyse the management processes of the Bufet d’Orís potato market to understand the valorisation and status of this traditional product in the context of a locally embedded food system. Based on an exploratory qu…
Food at the Hearth
This paper analyses the changes and continuity in the preparation and rituals of escudella i carn d'olla , a manifestation of traditional Catalan cuisine. Based on interviews with 27 ordinary citizens from different generations, the research explores how they experience, elaborate, and emotionally relate to escudella i carn d'olla , and what generational and gender patterns can be identified in these relationships. Results show that one of the mo…
Political science (19 works) · Geography (14 works) · Business (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Tourism (12 works) · Marketing (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (8 works) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (7 works) · Economic geography (6 works)