Tourism-phobia in Barcelona
Dismantling discursive strategies and power games in the construction of a sustainable tourist city
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12724497 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sheila Patrícia Ramos (0000-0003-3006-8076, Faculty of Tourism, Federal University of Alagoas –Brazil, Penedo, Brazil, corresponding author), Lluís Mundet I Cerdan (0000-0002-4091-6852, Faculty of Tourism, University of Girona- Spain, Girona, Spain) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 113-131 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1476-6825 • E-ISSN: 1747-7654 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14766825.2020.1752224 |
| OpenAlex | W3016685711 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 12 |
Since hosting the Olympics in 1992, Barcelona has enjoyed a privileged position in the competitive city rankings, with a dizzying growth in tourist numbers and a tourism industry that considers itself a frontrunner in economic development, resilient to crises while generating jobs and wealth. In recent years, however, this thriving sector and model city have been threatened by a phenomenon that has been labelled tourism-phobia. The negative impacts of tourism are beginning to create a general malaise in the city, which translates into a hatred of tourism and/or the tourist. Various social movements now hold protests and demonstrations calling for a decrease in tourism and the municipal administration itself has established forms of control over the sector. Barcelona has become a laboratory for pioneering measures, political programmes and radical management strategies to build a new model of tourist city. Taking Michel Foucault’s theory as a basis, this paper analyses how the multi-actor device of tourism-phobia that makes up the tourist city has been constructed, identifying the relevant power networks and their discourses. The elements involved in the ‘tourism-phobic Barcelona’ scenario are characterized in order to better understand the obstacles to achieving sustainable tourism linked to the millennium goals
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| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |