‘Overtourism’? – Understanding and Managing Urban Tourism Growth beyond Perceptions, Executive Summary

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ID19928890
AuthorsMike Duignan (corresponding author)
EditorsWorld Tourism Organization, Tourism & Hospitality Centre of Expertise Leisure
Year2018
Publication date2018-09-17
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
Venue‘Overtourism’? – Understanding and Managing Urban Tourism Growth beyond Perceptions, Executive Summary (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherWorld Tourism Organization (UNWTO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.18111/9789284420070
OpenAlexW2946488308
ISBN9789284420070
LanguageEN
Citations received36

My case focuses on the real and perceived challenges associated with over tourism, focused on the touristic-historic city of Cambridge, UK – informed by knowledge and research by the author, and four central perspectives provided by the contributors. Senior perspectives are triangulated against a series of strategic and policy documentation focused on understanding and managing tourism at the city and regional level. The case attempts to capture both written, agreed objectives, tactics, mechanisms, and targeted stakeholder groups related to Cambridge’s approach to tackling over-tourism – and – weaves in more informal, but critically important approaches outside of fixed strategic and policy documentation to add texture and to fully understand actions taken across the city. Writing this case has provided the author and contributors with a unique impetus to bring together what can often be a disparate set of strategies, policies, and on-the-ground actions – to examine exactly what the city and related stakeholders are doing – to tackle the pervasive objective and subjective threat - and local resistance to – over-tourism

Archaeology · Business · Environmental planning · Executive summary · Geography · Perception · Tourism · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Psychology

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