Overview
- Explores best practices, tools and methods to combat overtourism
- Provides a critical view of overtourism, questioning whether it is a real phenomenon or whether it is driven by media attention
- Includes case studies of mass tourism in areas of Scotland, France and UNESCO heritage sites
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Reframing Overtourism
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Stakeholders and Their Initiatives to Tackle Overtourism and Related Perverse Impacts
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Overtourism and Tourism Education
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About this book
The term ‘overtourism’ has come into prominence since 2017 and refers to the fact that, due to various factors such as more sophisticated marketing strategies, a large number of tourists visit the same place at the same time. The consequences are felt by the locals, the tourists themselves as well as the environment. As a result, tourismphobia and anti-tourism movements have emerged as ways for locals to reclaim their lifestyle by refusing to interact with visitors and sometimes discouraging them to visit.
This book presents new research on this emerging phenomenon and discusses the main causes and implications before putting forward possible solutions. The authors take an interpretivist approach in order to unveil aspects of overtourism that have not yet been discussed. It provides case studies and explores topics such as tourism education, overtourism of cultural and heritage sites, and the need for sustainable tourism development.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Hugues Séraphin is Senior Lecturer in Event and Tourism Management Studies at the University of Winchester, UK. Prior to his career in academia, he worked in various roles in the tourism and hospitality sector in the Caribbean and in Europe.
Tatiana Gladkikh is Senior Lecturer in Business Management at AFG College with the University of Aberdeen, Doha, Qatar. She previously worked at the University of Birmingham and the University of Winchester in the UK.
Tan Vo Thanh is Associate Professor in Management Science at La Rochelle Business School - Excelia Group, France. His research has been published widely across books, book chapters, and peer-reviewed journals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Overtourism
Book Subtitle: Causes, Implications and Solutions
Editors: Hugues Séraphin, Tatiana Gladkikh, Tan Vo Thanh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42458-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42457-2Published: 31 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42460-2Published: 31 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-42458-9Published: 30 May 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 448
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations