TOURISM
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Curating capital: tourism, sustainability, and opportunity in Iceland
– Danielle S. Willkens
In 2016 and 2017, there were more Americans in Iceland than Icelanders. With a population of a nearly 333,000, and more than 65% living in the capi…
The art tourist
– Sofia Mavroudis
One of the largest and most important international exhibitions of contemporary art takes place only once every five years. Documenta, the exhibiti…
What begins at the end of urban tourism, as we know it?
– Christoph Sommer
Amidst the “overtourism” debate going on in Europe, one question pops up routinely. Namely, how much tourism do cities bear? This issue is a though…
‘Gentritourism’ and the subculture of visitors emerged from it
– Cristina Roxana Lazar and Elisa Diogo Andrade Silva
Tourism nowadays has become an industry that is increasingly influencing the way in which cities are planned and especially the direction towards w…
Complexity-cage: toward a critical deconstruction of “tourism-phobia”
– Clara Zanardi
Tourist go home
Tourism kills the city
This isn’t tourism, it’s an invasion
Tourist: your luxury trip, my daily misery
Tourism in transformation: from a hectic urban environment to urban resilience in Barcelona
– Elisa Diogo Andrade Silva & Cristina Roxana Lazăr
The tourism industry has been growing worldwide since the first decades of the 20th century (Sezgin & Yolal, 2012), but particularly over the past …
Sticking around: poster art as activism in Venice
– OPA!
This essay refers to street art practices as a creative tool for the critique of the touristification of the city of Venice. In it, we present a project of scattered…
Fairbnb’s model for community-led tourism
with Sito Veracruz, co-founder of Fairbnb
Two prominent factors motivated me. Firstly, I am an urban planner, a “classic” urban planner from the Spanish perspective, because I graduate…
Tourism and the City
Call for Submissions
closing 31.10.2017
“Tourists go home” slogans were recently painted on the walls of Barcelona; they follow policies passed earlier this year at local level limiting t…