Overtourism : excesses, discontents and measures in travel and tourism / edited by Claudio Milano, Joseph M. Cheer and Marina Novelli.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Milano, Claudio, editor.

Cheer, Joseph M., editor.

Novelli, Marina, editor.

C.A.B. International, issuing body.

Standardized Title:

Overtourism (C.A.B. International)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Overtourism.

Overtourism--Case studies.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 244 pages) : illustrations, maps, charts

Place of Publication:

Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book is concerned with the various dimensions of overtourism, including the social and economic impacts of excessive tourism and the management and policy measures to address it. The 10 chapters present case studies contributing to the overtourism discussion from diverse perspectives and contexts including urban, coastal and rural destinations. As an accompaniment to the detailed cases in this volume, four shorter exposš in the form of 'In Focus' contributions are presented.

Contents:

Venice : an analysis of tourism excesses in an overtourism icon / Francesco Visentin, Dario Bertocchi

Tourist gentrification of retail shops in Palma (Majorca) / Macià Blázquez-Salom, Asunción Blanco-Romero, Jaume Gual Carbonell, Ivan Murray

"Todos a Galápagos" : overtourism in wilderness areas of the global South / Mathias Pecot, Carla Ricaurte-Quijano

In Focus 1: Overtourism is invading Kyoto / Daisuke Abe

Beyond overtourism : studying the entanglements of society and tourism in Iceland / Gunnar Thór, Katrín Anna Lund

Responses to overtourism in Guanacaste (Costa Rica) : a rural water conflicts' perspective / Ernest Cañada

Overcrowded Amsterdam : striving for a balance between trade, tolerance and tourism / Roos Gerritsma

In Focus 2: Tourism in Africa : is overtourism evident? / Judy Kepher-Gona

Public policies and tourist saturation in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro / Neiva Vieira da Cunha

Short-term accommodation and overtourism in Portuguese urban centres / Carlos Costa, Ivana Stevic, Medéia Veríssimo Oporto, Margarida Ferreira da Silva

My overloved town : the challenges of growing up in a small coastal tourist destination (Byron Bay, Australia) / Antonia Canosa, Anne Graham, Erica Wilson

In Focus 3: Brazilian media not yet concerned with overtourism / Daniel Nunes Gonçalves

Greenland's tourism policymaking and the risk of overtourism / Ioannides Ioannides Dimitri

In Focus 4: Managing overtourism through a holistic lens / Johl Kohl.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from PDF title page (viewed September 4, 2019).

Other Format:

Print version: Overtourism.

ISBN:

9781786399830

9781786399847

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