The Power of New Urban Tourism explores new forms of tourism in urban areas with their social, political, cultural, architectural and economic implications. By investigating various showcases of New Urban Tourism within its social and spatial frames, the book offers insights into power relations and connections between tourism and cityscapes in various socio-spatial settings around the world.
Contributors to the volume show how urban space has become a battleground between local residents and visitors, with changing perceptions of tourists as co-users of public and private urban spaces and as influencers of the local economies. This includes different roles of digital platforms as resources for access to the city and touristic opportunities as well as ways to organise and express protest or shifting representations of urban space. With contemporary cases from a wide disciplinary spectrum, the contributors investigate the power of New Urban Tourism in Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe and Oceania. This focus allows a cross-cultural evaluation of New Urban Tourism and its dynamic, and changing conception transforming and subverting cities and tourism alike.
The Power of New Urban Tourism will be of great interest to academics, researchers and students in the fields of cultural studies, sociology, the political sciences, economics, history, human geography, urban design and planning, architecture, ethnology and anthropology.
About the Author: Claudia Ba is a research fellow at the Department of Urban Sociology and Sociology of Space at Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany.
Sybille Frank is Professor of Urban Sociology and Sociology of Space at the Institute of Sociology at Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany.
Claus Müller is a research fellow and PhD candidate at the Department for Planning and Construction Economics/Real Estate at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.
Anna Laura Raschke is a research fellow at the Department of Urban Sociology and Sociology of Space at Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany.
Kristin Wellner is Professor of Planning and Construction Economics/Real Estate at the Institute of Architecture at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.
Annika Zecher is a research fellow at the Department of Urban Sociology and Sociology of Space at Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany.
