1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of Tourism Cities
The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Cities presents an up-to-date, critical and comprehensive overview of established and emerging themes in urban tourism and tourist cities. Offering socio-cultural perspectives and multidisciplinary insights from leading scholars, the book explores contemporary issues, challenges and trends.
Organised into four parts, the handbook begins with an introductory section that explores contemporary issues, challenges and trends that tourism cities face today. A range of topics are explored, including sustainable urban tourism, overtourism and urbanisation, the impact of terrorism, visitor–host interactions, as well as reflections on present and future challenges for tourism cities. In Part II the marketing, branding and markets for tourism cities are considered, exploring topics such as destination marketing and branding, business travellers and exhibition hosting. This section combines academic scholarship with real-life practice and case studies from cities. Part III discusses product and technology developments for tourism cities, examining their supply and impact on different travellers, from open-air markets to creative waterfronts, from social media to smart cities. The final Part offers examples of how urban tourism is developing in different parts of the world and how worldwide tourism cities are adapting to the challenges ahead. It also explores emerging forms of specialist tourism, including geology and ecology-based tourism, socialist heritage and post-communist destination tourism.
This handbook fills a notable gap by offering a critical and detailed understanding of the diverse elements of the tourist experience today. It contains useful suggestions for practitioners, as well as examples for theoretical frameworks to students in the fields of urban tourism and tourism cities. The handbook will be of interest to scholars and students working in urban tourism, heritage studies, human geography, urban studies and urban planning, sociology, psychology and business studies.
Part 1: Contemporary Issues, Challenges and Trends in Urban Tourism
1. Challenges of World Tourism Cities: London, Singapore And Dubai
Cristina Maxim
2. Global Terrorism in Tourism Cities: The Case of World Heritage Sites
Cláudia Seabra and Odete Paiva
3. Sustainable Tourism in Cities
Jonathon Day
4. The Sharing Economy in Tourism Cities
Amanda Belarmino
5. Urbanization and Its Effects on City Tourism in China
Jian Ming Luo and Chi Fung Lam
6. Tourism and Gentrification
Maria Gravari-Barbas and Sandra Guinand
7. Urbanism and Overtourism: Impacts and Implications for the City of Hyderabad
Vanessa GB Gowreesunkar and Mahender Reddy Gavinolla
8. Micro Shocks and Public Outrage: City Tourism in a Turbulent World
Craig Webster and Sotiris Hji-Avgoustis
Part 2: Marketing, Branding and Markets for Tourism Cities
9. Marketing and Managing City Tourism Destinations
Alastair M. Morrison
10. The Emergence of the Business Tourism City
Rob Davidson
11. An Eventful Tourism City: Hosting Major International Exhibitions in Melbourne
Valentina Gorchakova and Vladimir Antchak
12. How Credible is Vancouver’s New Destination Brand? An Analysis of a Destination’s Brand Promise and the Tourist’s Brand Experience
Rami K. Isaac and Jacqueline Wichnewski
13. Family Tourism: Past, Present and Opportunities
Xinran Y. Lehto, Jun Chen and Uyen Le
14. The Impact of Millennials on Urban Tourism
Dae-Young Kim and Ye-Jin Lee
15. Visiting Older Friends and Relatives: Opportunities for Tourism Cities
Elisa Backer (Zentveld)
16. Dark Tourism and Cities
John J. Lennon
17. Green Cities as Bird Watching Destinations
David Newsome and Greg Simpson
Part 3: Product and Technology Developments for Tourism Cities
18. Cultural and Heritage Tourism in Contemporary Cities
Stephen W. Boyd
19. Outdoor and Indoor Markets in Tourism Cities
Joan C. Henderson
20. Something for Everyone? The Challenge of Touristic Urban Spaces
Ece Kaya and Deborah Edwards
21. Shaping Urban Destinations: Perspectives on Tourist Attractions
Sello Samuel Nthebe and Magdalena Petronella (Nellie) Swart
22. ‘Le vieux’ and ‘le nouveau’: The Ambidextrous Model of French Tourism Cities
Hugues Seraphin
23. The Transition of a Coastal Industrial City into a World-Class Tourism and Maritime City: The Case of Port Elizabeth
Cinà Van Zyl
24. Smart Urban Tourism Destinations at a Crossroads – Being ‘Smart’ and Urban Are No Longer Enough
J. Andres Coca-Stefaniak and Gildo Seisdedos
25. eTourism Challenges for Urban Tourism Destinations
Sebastian Molinillo, Rafael Anaya-Sánchez and Antonio Guevara-Plaza
26. The Growing Role of Social Media in City Tourism
Ulrike Gretzel
27. Transport in Tourism Cities: Beyond the Functional and Towards an Experiential Approach
Claire Papaix and J. Andres Coca-Stefaniak
28. The Artistic Medium of Walking: A Model for Reflexive Tourism the Memory is the Medium – Tourism, Walking and Art
Blake Morris
Part 4: Worldwide Tourism Cities and Urban Tourism
29. Urban Tourism Development in Europe: A Double-Edged Sword for the Cities?
Irem Onder and Bozana Zekan
30. Tourism Cities in the United States
Costas Spirou
31. Tourism in Latin America: An Overview and New Experiences in City Tourism
Blanca A. Camargo, María L. Chávez and María del Carmen Ginocchio
32. Tourism in ASEAN Cities: Features and Directions
Hera Oktadiana and Philip L. Pearce
33. Socialist Legacies and Cities: Societal Approach Towards the Socialist Heritage
Katia Iankova and Sonia Mileva
34. Tourism Cities in Post-Communist Countries
Melanie Kay Smith and Tamara Klicek
35. Tourism Cities in China
Bihu Wu, Qing Li, Feiya Ma and Ting Wang
36. Appreciating Geology in the Urban Environment
Samantha Richards, Greg D. Simpson and David Newsome
37. Dolphins in the City
Greg Simpson, Jessica Patroni, David Kerr, Jennifer Verduin and David Newsome
38. Location, Urban Fabric, and Transportation: Historical Morphogenetic Analysis of Tourism Cities Along the Grand Canal
Fang Wang, Bingyu Lin and Qingyin Liu
39. Macau as a City of Gastronomy: The Role of Cuisine in a Tourism Product Bundle
Kim-Ieng Loi, Weng-Hang Kong and Hugo Robarts Bandeira
40. Present Situation of Wuhan City Tourism Development
Yan (Mary) Mao
Biography
Alastair M. Morrison, PhD is Research Professor in Marketing, Events and Tourism at the Business School, University of Greenwich, UK. Formerly, he was Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Purdue University, USA, specialising in the area of tourism and hospitality marketing, and President of the International Tourism Studies Association. Alastair is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Tourism Cities. He is a member of the Experts Committee of the World Tourism Cities Federation.
J. Andres Coca-Stefaniak is Associate Professor of Tourism and Events at the University of Greenwich, UK, deputy leader of the university’s Tourism Research Centre, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Tourism Cities. Andres serves on the editorial boards of various journals, including the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research; Sustainability; Journal of Tourism Futures; and the Journal of Place Management and Development, among others. He is a member of the Experts Committee of the World Tourism Cities Federation.
