{"title":"A new urban diagnostics approach for measuring touristification: The case of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona","authors":"Enrico Porfido , Mariona Tomàs , Joan Marull","doi":"10.1016/j.jum.2023.03.003","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the last decades the global tourist industry has been transformed by rapid growth, resulting in many destinations reaching a state of touristification. This phenomenon is a socioeconomic and spatial transformation process that can contribute to the creation of a tourism monoculture.</p><p>This study aims to measure the level of touristification found in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (MAB), focussing on social, spatial and environmental aspects. The study's originality lies at the territorial level of research. The primary intended outcome of the research is to provide an analytic methodology to support informed decision-making for sustainable urban tourism policies at the metropolitan level.</p><p>In the MAB a polycentric pattern of touristification can be observed in an area that is currently undergoing two processes: the increase of tourism supplies in the first ring of MAB municipalities and the distribution of tourism fluxes on the coastal destinations. Furthermore, four typologies of municipalities have been established based on their level of touristification growth. Finally, this study demonstrates the importance of discussing these processes at the metropolitan level and providing a methodology relevant to other metropolises worldwide.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45131,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.9000,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Urban Management","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2226585623000250","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"URBAN STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In the last decades the global tourist industry has been transformed by rapid growth, resulting in many destinations reaching a state of touristification. This phenomenon is a socioeconomic and spatial transformation process that can contribute to the creation of a tourism monoculture.
This study aims to measure the level of touristification found in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (MAB), focussing on social, spatial and environmental aspects. The study's originality lies at the territorial level of research. The primary intended outcome of the research is to provide an analytic methodology to support informed decision-making for sustainable urban tourism policies at the metropolitan level.
In the MAB a polycentric pattern of touristification can be observed in an area that is currently undergoing two processes: the increase of tourism supplies in the first ring of MAB municipalities and the distribution of tourism fluxes on the coastal destinations. Furthermore, four typologies of municipalities have been established based on their level of touristification growth. Finally, this study demonstrates the importance of discussing these processes at the metropolitan level and providing a methodology relevant to other metropolises worldwide.
期刊介绍:
Journal of Urban Management (JUM) is the Official Journal of Zhejiang University and the Chinese Association of Urban Management, an international, peer-reviewed open access journal covering planning, administering, regulating, and governing urban complexity.
JUM has its two-fold aims set to integrate the studies across fields in urban planning and management, as well as to provide a more holistic perspective on problem solving.
1) Explore innovative management skills for taming thorny problems that arise with global urbanization
2) Provide a platform to deal with urban affairs whose solutions must be looked at from an interdisciplinary perspective.