NS29 Session 8

29th Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research
Shaping mobile futures: Challenges and possibilities in precarious times

21-23 September 2021

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Title: Urban tourism development: challenges and possibilities in the wake of Covid-19

Organisers: Maria Månsson, Jörgen Eksell & Michael Johansson

Affiliation: Lund University

Description

One of the most important trends in contemporary tourism, until the Covid-19 pandemic, has been an increase in urban tourism, both in absolute and in relative terms. The key issue was overtourism. However, with the pandemic the situation totally changed and urban destinations are now facing issues of undertourism. It is therefore time to rethink and plan for a new future for urban tourism that focus on sustainable and resilient tourism development.

This session therefore welcome abstracts that addresses the dilemmas and challenges that contemporary urban tourism development is facing from a multidisciplinary perspective. The session welcomes social, cultural, economic and environmental aspects on sustainability in urban destinations.

Abstracts are therefore invited for, but not limited to, the following:

• urban sustainable tourism development
• urban planning and management
• alternative approaches to urban tourism
• sustainable urban tourism and climate change
• alternative business solutions in urban context
• urban tourism place conflicts (tourism phobia, anti-tourism)
• conceptualizing the continuum overtourism and undertourism
• visitor management strategies
• tourism and sustainable consumption
• place branding and sustainable urban tourism
• communication strategies for urban tourism development
• valuing urban ecosystem services and tourism
• stakeholder engagement and destination development
• destination resilience

Abstracts