Reinventing the Local in Tourism

Antonio Paolo Russo is a tenured Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain. His research interests include tourism and culture, cities and local development.Greg Richards is Professor of Placemaking and Events at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands and Professor of Leisure Studies at the University of Tilburg, Netherlands. He specialises in cultural and creative tourism.

• Preface1. Antonio Paolo Russo and Greg Richards: Introduction.Part One - New Products and Hospitality Models2. Antonio Paolo Russo and Alan Quaglieri Domínguez: The Shifting Spatial Logic of Tourism in Networked Hospitality3. Paula Bialski: Authority and Authorship: Uncovering the Socio-Technical Regimes of Peer-To-Peer Tourism4. Francesca Forno and Roberta Garibaldi: Ethical Travel: Holidaying To Fight the Italian Mafia5. Monica Gilli and Sonia Ferrari: The ‘Diffuse Hotel’: An Italian New Model of Sustainable HospitalityPart Two: Flows and Communities6. Ilaria Pappalepore and Andrew Smith: The Co-Creation of Urban Tourism Experiences7. Simon Milne, Carolyn Deuchar and Karin Peters: ‘Get Local’: ICT, Tourism and Community Place Making In Auckland, New Zealand8. Cody Morris Paris and Kevin Hannam: (Dis)Engaging The Local: Backpackers’ Usage Of Social Media During Crises9. Melanie Smith and Anita Zátori: Re-Thinking Host-Guest Relationships in the Context of Urban Ethnic TourismPart Three - Built Environments and ‘Glocalised’ Spaces10. Davide Ponzini, Stefan Fotev and Francesca Mavaracchio: Place-Making or Place-Faking? The Paradoxical Effects Of Transnational Circulation of Architectural and Urban Development Projects11. Greg Richards: Hostels and the Making of New Urban Spaces12. Elsa Soro: Between Translation and Reinterpretation. What Is Local in Barcelona’s Foodsphere?13. Albert Arias Sans and Alan Quaglieri Domínguez: Unravelling Airbnb. Urban Perspectives from Barcelona14. Dimitri Ioannides, Panos Leventis and Evangelia Petridou: Urban Resistance Tourism Initiatives in Stressed Cities: The Case of Athens15. Greg Richards and Antonio Paolo Russo: Synthesis and Conclusions. Towards A New Geography of Tourism?

This collection is a hugely valuable contribution to contemporary debates over how we study and ‘position’ tourism enquiry. The contributors raise a number of new questions, particularly about the entanglements of tourism with urban and community development, digital technologies and social media and new hospitality networks. It will be an important resource for students and researchers interested in identities, mobilities, co-creation, place making, and the renegotiation and redefinition of what is frequently understood as ‘the local’.