TRATAMIENTO EN LA PRENSA DIGITAL DE UN FENÓMENO GEOGRÁFICO: LA TURISTIFICACIÓN

The spreading of low cost tourism and the mass use of collaborative platforms for temporary rental of living accommodation in the last years have increased the social impact of these economic practices in many cities worldwide. Notwithstanding their direct influence on rental prices as the most direct effect and the focus of most research thus far, many studies are increasingly relating this massive and unplanned touristic development to issues such as Fecha de recepción: 30 abril de 2019 Fecha de aceptación: 18 de noviembre de 2019 * Departamento de Geografía. Universidad de Murcia. Campus de La Merced. 30001 MURCIA (España). E-mail: cj.egiorubio@um.es ** Departamento de Filología Inglesa. Universidad de Murcia. Campus de La Merced. 30001 MURCIA (España). E-mail: piedad@um.es CARLOS JAVIER EGIO RUBIO Y PIEDAD FERNÁNDEZ TOLEDO 250 Cuadernos de Turismo, 46, (2020), 249-267 neighborhood conflicts, gentrification, public space privatizing or environmental problems. The present study tracks the use of the term “turistificación” (touristification) in the Spanish press during 2018, using a Discourse and Genre approach to examineits coverage in four newspapers, in order to ascertain its relative presence and its pervasivenessas a social issue.