Tourism and Everyday Life in the Contemporary City

authored by

Christoph Sommer, Thomas Frisch, Luise Stoltenberg, Natalie Stors

Abstract

Tourism and urban everyday life are deeply connected in a mutually constitutive way. Tourism has become a key momentum of urban development and affects cities beyond its economic dimension. Urban everyday life itself can turn into a matter of tourist interest for people searching for experiences off the beaten track. Even living in a city as a resident involves moments, activities and practices which could be labelled as ‘touristic’. These observations demonstrate some of the various layers in which urban tourism and everyday city life are intertwined. This book gathers multiple interdisciplinary approaches, a diversity of topics and methodological variety to examine this complex relationship. It presents a systematic framework for the dynamic research field of new urban tourism along three dimensions: the extraordinary mundane, encounters and contact zones, and urban co-production.

Organisation(s)

Institute of Environmental Planning

Type

Handbook

No. of pages

272

Publication date

2019

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429507168 (Access: Closed)