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Urban Tourism Studies: A Transversal Research Agenda
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The debate on tourism in cities, both academically and in practice, has for a long time taken place in relative isolation from urban studies. Tourism is mostly addressed as an external agent and economic force that puts pressure on cities rather than as an interdependent part of city systems. The recent debate on city touristification and excessive dependence on the visitor economy, as well as the associated processes of exclusion, and displacement of local city users, serves to highlight how tourism is an integral part of urban developments. A wider urban perspective is needed to understand the processes underlying the tourism phenomena and more transdisciplinary perspectives are required to analyze the urban (tourism) practices. The current article seeks to contribute to such a perspective through a discussion of the literature on urban and tourism studies, and related fields such as gentrification, mobilities, and touristification. Based on this, theoretical reflections are provided regarding a more integral perspective to tourism and urban development in order to engage with a transversal urban tourism research agenda.
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KOENS, Ko and MILANO, Claudio. Urban Tourism Studies: A Transversal Research Agenda. Tourism Culture & Communication. 2024. Vol. 24, num. 4, pags. 275-286. ISSN 1098-304X. [consulted: 12 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/227387