City Tourism Performance Research


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For each city: An introduction with basic facts, infrastructure, transport and connectivity, tourism flows, tourism source markets and seasonality, economic impact, tourism enterprises, key performance areas, dDestination management, social and cultural perspective, environmental perspective, technology and new business models, success stories.Buenos Aires, Argentina: 'MiBarrio' project and The Big Data project. Linz, Austria : Ars Electronica and European Capital of Culture 2009: a success story. Antwerp , Belgium: The creation of a new city quarter, Het Eilandje and Crowd monitoring. Beijing, China: The Imperial Palace Museum. Hangzhou, China: West Lake: UNESCO heritage site and The Grand Canal: a destination to immerse with locals. Tianjin, China: Tianjin's foreign concessions and WuDaDao and Yangliuqing Ancient Town. Bogota, Colombia: La Candelaria certification as a sustainable destination and Developing sustainable natural, rural and community based tourism projects. Copenhagen, Denmark: Guldsmeden Hotel 66 Copenhagen and Crown Plaza Copenhagen Towers. Berlin, Germany: MEET+CHANGE and Fair.kiez. Turin, Italy: Slow Food and Turin's family businesses. Sapporo, Japan: Sapporo Snow Festival and Promotion of in-city round trip based on big data analysis. Tokyo, Japan: Beyond 2020 and "Mori no Nigiwai" events. Marrakech, Morocco: The rehabilitation of the Medina of Marrakech and Le 'Musée Mohammed VI pour la civilisation de l'eau au Maroc - Aman. Seoul, Republic of Korea: Seoul's Future Heritage Project and Shared City Seoul' Project. Cape Town, South Africa: Love Cape Town Neighbourhoods' campaign and The V&A Waterfront."




Tourism in the City


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This book critically explores the interconnections between tourism and the contemporary city from a policy-oriented standpoint, combining tourism perspectives with discussion of urban models, issues, and challenges. Research-based analyses addressing managerial issues and evaluating policy implications are described, and a comprehensive set of case studies is presented to demonstrate practices and policies in various urban contexts. A key message is that tourism policies should be conceived as integrated urban policies that promote tourism performance as a means of fostering urban quality and the well-being of local communities, e.g., in terms of quality spaces, employment, accessibility, innovation, and learning opportunities. In addition to highlighting the significance of urban tourism in relation to key urban challenges, the book reflects on the risks and tensions associated with its development, including the rise of anti-tourism movements as a reaction to touristification, cultural commodification, and gentrification. Attention is drawn to asymmetries in the costs and benefits of the city tourism phenomenon, and the supposedly unavoidable trade-off between the interests of residents and tourists is critically questioned.




World Tourism Cities


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World Tourism Cities: A Systematic Approach to Urban Tourism is a unique and contemporary textbook that addresses the particular situation of urban tourism destinations in the 2020s by reviewing key issues, trends, challenges and future opportunities for urban tourism destinations worldwide, as well as city destination management. The book is divided into four parts, with Part I providing background chapters on world tourism cities. It begins by clearly defining world tourism cities and explaining the impacts of globalisation and urbanisation on these cities. The subsequent chapter explains the urban tourism phenomenon and traces its growth. Part II presents city destination management, planning and development and the marketing and branding of cities, offering practical solutions and approaches. Part III discusses major issues and trends in world tourism cities including resident well-being and quality of life, sustainability, smart tourism, crises and the rise of tourism in Asian cities, and the final part identifies the future opportunities for city tourism. Written in a student-friendly tone, the book is richly illustrated and contains several engaging features, including Sweet tweets (snippets of information on cities) and Short breaks (detailed case studies on cities). This will be essential reading for all tourism students.




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City Tourism


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Capital city status attracts and drives tourism by enhancing a city's appeal to the tourist and its international standing. With a focus on city tourism themes, this book examines subjects including the identity of a city in a tourism context and practical matters such as promoting the city as a product. By examining tourist activities in national capitals, the book addresses issues in capital city development as tourist destinations with a broad, international approach and case studies on major tourist cities.




City Tourism Performance Research


Book Description

For each city: An introduction with basic facts, infrastructure, transport and connectivity, tourism flows, tourism source markets and seasonality, economic impact, tourism enterprises, key performance areas, dDestination management, social and cultural perspective, environmental perspective, technology and new business models, success stories.Buenos Aires, Argentina: 'MiBarrio' project and The Big Data project. Linz, Austria : Ars Electronica and European Capital of Culture 2009: a success story. Antwerp , Belgium: The creation of a new city quarter, Het Eilandje and Crowd monitoring. Beijing, China: The Imperial Palace Museum. Hangzhou, China: West Lake: UNESCO heritage site and The Grand Canal: a destination to immerse with locals. Tianjin, China: Tianjin's foreign concessions and WuDaDao and Yangliuqing Ancient Town. Bogota, Colombia: La Candelaria certification as a sustainable destination and Developing sustainable natural, rural and community based tourism projects. Copenhagen, Denmark: Guldsmeden Hotel 66 Copenhagen and Crown Plaza Copenhagen Towers. Berlin, Germany: MEET+CHANGE and Fair.kiez. Turin, Italy: Slow Food and Turin's family businesses. Sapporo, Japan: Sapporo Snow Festival and Promotion of in-city round trip based on big data analysis. Tokyo, Japan: Beyond 2020 and "Mori no Nigiwai" events. Marrakech, Morocco: The rehabilitation of the Medina of Marrakech and Le 'Musée Mohammed VI pour la civilisation de l'eau au Maroc - Aman. Seoul, Republic of Korea: Seoul's Future Heritage Project and Shared City Seoul' Project. Cape Town, South Africa: Love Cape Town Neighbourhoods' campaign and The V&A Waterfront."










Tourism, Performance, and Place


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Drawing upon theories of landscape and performance, this work weaves together existing tourism literature with new scholarship to forge a geographically informed theory of tourism. Such a theory integrates the ways in which places are co-produced, circulated, interpreted, experienced, and performed for and by tourists, tourism boards, and even as everyday spaces. Bringing together theories of ritual, Peircean semiotics, ideology, and performance, the authors blend the often separate literatures of tourism sites and touristic practices. Whereas most tourism texts focus on a part of the 'tourism equation'-the tourism site, or the tourist experience-a geographic theory of tourism brings these constituent parts together in thinking about notions of place. Place processes are central to geography as well as tourism studies because tourism facilitates encounters with distinct locations. As this book argues, considering tourism as performative draws disparate areas of tourism theory together to better understand the ways tourism happens in and across places.




The Future of Tourism


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This book presents the foundations for the future of tourism in a structured and detailed format. The who-is-who of tourism intelligence has collaborated to present a definitive blueprint for tourism reflecting the role of science, market institutions, and governance in its innovation and sustainability. The book adopts a comprehensive approach, exploring recent research and the latest developments in practice to inform the reader about instruments and actions that can shape a successful future for tourism. Broad in scope, the book incorporates the perspectives of leading tourism academics, as well as the views of tourism entrepreneurs, destination managers, government officials, and civil leaders. The book is divided into three parts, the first of which addresses the scientific facets of innovation, analyzing the challenges and opportunities that technology provides for organic and disruptive developments in tourism, which will shape its future. In turn, the second part examines socio-cultural paradigms – with a view to dismantling traditional barriers to innovation. It also explores the role of heritage and the ethics of inclusiveness as drivers for sustainable tourism. The third part investigates new ways and means in governance and policy making for tourism. It introduces advances such as strategic positioning, symbiotic partnerships, and innovative management, and closes by presenting governance frameworks for an inclusive and sustainable future of tourism.