Research Agenda for Urban Tourism

Edited by Jan van der Borg, Division of Geography and Tourism, KU Leuven, Belgium, and Department of Economics, University Ca'Foscari Venice, Italy

• Contents:Preface xiii1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Urban Tourism 1Jan van der BorgPART I URBAN TOURISM DEVELOPMENT2 Urban tourism: major trends 19Bozana Zekan and Karl Wöber3 Urban tourism as a special type of cultural tourism 33Greg RichardsPART II URBAN TOURISM IN AN INTERNATIONAL,COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE4 Smart governance in historic urban destinations -evidence from Croatia 55Lidija Petrić and Ante Mandić5 Understanding community perception throughresident attitude studies: a segmentation analysisin Flemish art cities 85Bart Neuts and Vincent Nijs6 Tourism in Venice: mapping overtourism andexploring solutions 109Nicola Camatti and Dario Bertocchi7 The Rotterdam way: a new take on urban tourismmanagement 129Shirley Nieuwland, Ewout Versloot and Egbert van der Zee8 New urban developments in a heritage area.A case study of Skeppsholmsviken 6 inStockholm, Sweden 145Anna-Paula Jonsson and Tigran Haas9 Urban tourism development in Africa: evidencefrom Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 179Getaneh Addis Tessema and Ephrem Assefa Haile10 Municipal advancement and tourism policy in theUnited States: economic development and urbanrestructuring 203Costas Spirou11 Comparative study on Chinese cities asinternational tourism destinations 221Xiang Feng, Ben Derudder and Hai Xia ZhouPART III SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENTPOLICIES IN CITIES12 Overtourism – identifying the underlying causesand tensions in European tourism destinations 245Ko Koens and Jeroen Klijs13 Is another tourism possible? Shifting discourses inBarcelona’s tourism politics 261Antonio Paolo Russo, Elsa Soro and Alessandro Scarnato14 Post-COVID-19 urban tourism research 285Sebastian Zenker15 Towards A Research Agenda for Urban Tourism.A synthesis 299Jan van der BorgIndex

‘Cities should be able to cater to travel-starved citizens of the world aching to spend their savings as soon as the Covid-19 travel bans are lifted. But how to do that without falling back into the trap of overtourism? The answers can be found in this collection of highly informative readings. They carefully balance theoretical and practical deliberations, providing an international comparative perspective based on numerous good and bad practices from the past. These should serve both as food for thought and inspiration for tomorrow, for academic researchers and practitioners alike.’