Tourism, Cities and Global Change (Part III) - Different Spatial Scales: Cities, Regions and Routes

Tuesday, 8 July 2025: 15:00-16:45
Location: SJES029 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
RC50 International Tourism (host committee)
RC21 Regional and Urban Development

Language: English, French and Spanish

Tourism, as a main expression of contemporary society, includes and reflects its main paradoxes and ambiguities.

It means freedom, hope, creativity, development, inclusion in global processes, and even a powerful tool of definition, negotiation and (re)invention of individual, collective, local, global and glocal identities.

Yet it means also exploitation, exclusion, loss of identity, perpetuation of colonial gazes, cultural stereotypes and social inequalities.

In the same way, it can be a tool of enhancement of cultural heritage and a mechanism of heritage crystallization; a practice related to nature and a fact entailing environmental exploitation.

Its rapid recovery after the pandemic has had unexpected effects. What initially seemed like an unprecedented event, destined to transform tourism and define new paradigms, after a few years appears to have caused only a minor disruption without significant consequences. The main critical issues remain largely unaddressed.

In many countries, overtourism is becoming a major problem with its interrelated issues (gentrification, housing crisis, touristification, Disneyfication etc.) deeply transforming the quality of life and the socio-cultural context, sparking reactions and even fueling anti-tourism behaviour.

We welcome papers addressing the following topics, primarily but not exclusively:

Tourism and:

  • globalization and cultural change
  • crisis and recovery, creativity and resilience
  • environmental and socio-cultural sustainability
  • impacts of overtourism on urban culture and social life
  • sustainable practices and urban planning to deal with overtourism
  • touristification, identity, and local communities
  • anti-tourism behaviour
  • cosmopolitanism and democracy
  • co-existence at the same time and place of social forms of national and international experiences
Session Organizer:
Marxiano MELOTTI, Niccolò Cusano University, Rome, Italy
Chair:
Thiago DUARTE PIMENTEL, Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Brazil
Oral Presentations
Social Capital, Networks, and Stakeholders: A Study on the Role of Managers and Their Influence on Interorganizational Relations in Regional Governance Bodies of Minas Gerais
Marcos Eduardo CARVALHO GONÇALVES KNUPP, Brazil; Ana ALCANTARA, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil; Luana SENDA, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil
Branded Routes As a Form of Organization and Conceptualization of Tourist Space in Globalization
Oleg AFANASIEV, Russian Federation; Aleksandra AFANASIEVA, Russian State University of Tourism and Service, Russian Federation
Tourism Development Agenda in Puerto Vallarta, México
Fabiola Cristina COSTA DE CARVALHO, UNICEPES - Universidad Centro Panamericano de Estudios Superiores, Mexico; José Alfonso BAÑOS FRANCIA, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico