Reinventing the Local in Tourism

Producing, Consuming and Negotiating Place

Edited by Antonio Paolo Russo, Dr. Greg Richards

Publication date:

03 May 2016

Publisher

Channel View Publications

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781845415693

This book investigates the way localities are shaped and negotiated through tourism, and explores the emerging success of local peer-produced hospitality and tourism services which are transforming the tourist experience. Tourists are now being brought into much closer contact with locals and have new opportunities to experience the community at their destination. This book examines these place experiences and travel-sharing arrangements that have now spread globally due to the use of social communication platforms such as Airbnb. It analyses the existence of global communities of ‘place experts’ that are redefining the organisational structures, value systems, market opportunities, affordabilities and geographies in travel and tourism. This volume brings together the work of established tourism scholars as well as early career researchers and is one of the first books to examine the global-local relationship at tourism destinations and the way that the rapidly developing field of peer-to-peer tourism is transforming tourist destinations.

Preface

1. Antonio Paolo Russo and Greg Richards: Introduction.

Part One - New Products and Hospitality Models

2. Antonio Paolo Russo and Alan Quaglieri Domínguez: The Shifting Spatial Logic of Tourism in Networked Hospitality

3. Paula Bialski: Authority and Authorship: Uncovering the Socio-Technical Regimes of Peer-To-Peer Tourism

4. Francesca Forno and Roberta Garibaldi: Ethical Travel: Holidaying To Fight the Italian Mafia

5. Monica Gilli and Sonia Ferrari: The ‘Diffuse Hotel’: An Italian New Model of Sustainable Hospitality

Part Two: Flows and Communities

6. Ilaria Pappalepore and Andrew Smith: The Co-Creation of Urban Tourism Experiences

7. Simon Milne, Carolyn Deuchar and Karin Peters: ‘Get Local’: ICT, Tourism and Community Place Making In Auckland, New Zealand

8. Cody Morris Paris and Kevin Hannam: (Dis)Engaging The Local: Backpackers’ Usage Of Social Media During Crises

9. Melanie Smith and Anita Zátori: Re-Thinking Host-Guest Relationships in the Context of Urban Ethnic Tourism

Part Three - Built Environments and ‘Glocalised’ Spaces

10. Davide Ponzini, Stefan Fotev and Francesca Mavaracchio: Place-Making or Place-Faking? The Paradoxical Effects Of Transnational Circulation of Architectural and Urban Development Projects

11. Greg Richards: Hostels and the Making of New Urban Spaces

12. 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 Barcelona

14. Dimitri Ioannides, Panos Leventis and Evangelia Petridou: Urban Resistance Tourism Initiatives in Stressed Cities: The Case of Athens

15. 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’.