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Title	Urban tourism as a bone of contention. Four explanatory hypotheses and a caveat
Type	Journal article
Authors	Novy, J.
Abstract	This commentary responds to recent debates surrounding the observable proliferation and intensification of controversies and disputes surrounding urban tourism. It argues that coming to terms with conflicts about and around tourism in cities represents an important frontier for research and puts forth some observations about its causes and characteristics, the debates they have sparked, and our scholarly engagement with them so far. In particular, the commentary will address (i) the role of urban tourism’s massive and often rapid growth; (ii) the fact that backlashes in cities are often less directed against tourism in its entirety than against particular kinds of tourism (or tourists); (iii) the need to look at contestations surrounding urban tourism not in isolation from, but in firm connection to the more general rise of struggles and protests in and about urban space unfolding in cities worldwide ; (iv) the extent to which contestations are are linked to the ongoing, and, it seems, accelerating, geographical spread of tourism; and, lastly, (v) the need to critically engage with the notion of tourism itself and move beyond essentialising narratives that portray tourism as an alltogether distinct, easily separable social phenomenon.
Keywords	urban tourism, new tourism, overtourism, protests
Journal	International Journal of Tourism Cities
Journal citation	5 (1), pp. 63-74
ISSN	2056-5607
Year	2019
Publisher	Emerald Publishing Limited
Accepted author manuscript	IJCT_Urban tourism as a bone of contention. Four explanatory hypotheses and a caveat_pre-page proof.pdf
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.1108/IJTC-01-2018-0011
Published online	07 Aug 2018
Published in print	2019

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