1st Edition

Tourism and the Night Rethinking Nocturnal Destinations

Edited By Andrew Smith, Adam Eldridge Copyright 2021
126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

Over recent decades, municipal authorities have promoted their cities as places boasting desirable night-time activities. Light festivals, museum lates, nightclubbing, and night markets extend the typical tourist experience into the night and have become a key part of the way some cities are branded. This anthology draws together research addressing the relationship between tourism and the night,... Read more

Introduction: Tourism and the night: towards a broader understanding of nocturnal city destinations  1. Decoding middle-class protest against low-cost nocturnal tourism in Madrid  2. Gentrification, tourism and the night-time economy in Budapest's district VII – the role of regulation in a post-socialist context  3. Commuting and the urban night: nocturnal mobilities in tourism and hospitality work  4. Strangers in the night: nightlife studies and new urban tourism  5. Nocturnal ritual activities in tourist development of pilgrimage cities  6. Residents versus visitors at light festivals in cities: the case of Barcelona  7. Fairy tale tourism: the architectural projection mapping of magically real and irreal festival lightscapes

Biography

Andrew Smith is a Reader in the School of Architecture and Cities at the University of Westminster, UK. He is the author of Events in the City: Using Public Spaces as Event Venues (2016) and Events and Urban Regeneration: The Strategic Use of Events to Revitalise Cities (2012).

Adam Eldridge is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Westminster, UK. He is the co-author of Planning the Night Time City (2009) and co-editor of Exploring Nightlife: Space, Society and Governance (2018). His research examines the night as a source of debates about public space, leisure, and identity.