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Despite the long tradition of fieldwork and qualitative research practice in tourism studies, the reporting of methodological notes and reflections is limited in the literature. Many excellent meth...

SDG 17 highlights the importance that the partnership narrative plays in the implementation of SDGs. However, given the brevity of many development projects, these partnerships are often developed and concluded rapidly, with little attention given to their longer-term implications or success. This paper argues that in order to create and develop partnerships that properly address the SDGs, it is imperative that a process perspective is developed that takes into account the range of stakeholders and interests, values, and the power relations between actors prior to and during the project together with a comprehensive understanding of the notion of success. This requires a full awareness of the project’s context and previous interventions, activities, and policies. In order to illustrate the necessity of longitudinal partnerships and perspectives, a case study, involving a community-based development project in New Delhi, India is used. The goal of the project has been to ensure that the community is actively involved in the entire process, eventually becoming owners of the interventions so that, when the project and partnership eventually ends, the community continues to benefit. Examples from the project are used to emphasize the importance of long-term planning and partnership driven by context-specificity, implementation processes and policy-awareness.

The 2007-2008 Global Financial Crisis profoundly impacted national economies and the housing markets, particularly in the so-called PIGS countries. Main cities in Portugal, Italy and Greece have seen a sharp decrease in house prices and rent value since 2010. At the same time, the rise of Airbnb has contributed to the reframing of housing market demand in cities, with an increase of temporary lettings in prime urban tourist areas and off the beaten track. Understandably, this rising urban phenomenon has direct implications for local residents, with renters’ displacement, tourism gentrification and raising cases of tourismphobia. This article provides insights from three cities - Athens, Lisbon and Milan - to show how the dynamics in the housing market and the boost of Airbnb over the last decade are steadily changing the urban populations of the aforementioned cities. This research builds upon the Rent Gap Theory and the Lukes’ Power Theory to illustrate how Airbnb is fostering a new form of urban displacement at a faster rate than traditional housing gentrification, with the rental of prime residential areas to prospective tourists.

Over the last decade, the dynamics of global tourism mobilities have changed significantly, with the rise of new generating and receiving tourism regions in the Middle East and Asia. The latter has...

Over the last two years, overtourism has gained relevance and importance as subject of study. On the one hand, the impacts of overcrowded destinations and poor tourism planning have brought back th...

Despite its theorization in the political and policy sciences in the early 1990s, the concept of metagovernance has gained relatively little recognition in tourism studies. Nevertheless, its significance in the political sciences and policy literature, especially as a result of the perceived failure of governance systems following the recent global financial crisis, has only served to reinforce its relevance. Metagovernance addresses some of the perceived failures of traditional governance approaches and associated interventions, and has enabled the understanding of central-state led regimes of shadowed hierarchical authorities and local-level micro-practices of social innovation and self-government. In contrast, tourism studies have tended to restrict study of the political dimension of tourism governance and the role of the state under the traditional parallelism between government and governance. Examination of how governance is itself governed enables a better understanding of the practices of planning and policy making affecting tourism and destinations. In particular, the applications of concepts of governance are inextricably linked to a given set of value assumptions which predetermine the range of its application. A short example of the application of the metagovernance paradigm is provided from the New Zealand context. It is concluded that governance mechanisms are not value-neutral and instead serve to highlight the allocation of power in a destination and the dominance of particular values and interests.

Pioneering studies in ecology and outdoor recreation have predominantly been characterized by an analytical paradigm rooted in modern philosophy that has placed the human and the natural dimensions...

Increasing urbanization, its implications for peripheral and rural regions, and the quest for sustainability in the Anthropocene are central in current debates on economic development, environmenta...

Despite several academic contributions (e.g. C.M. Hall, 2005; Urry, 2001) that stress mobility as one of the quintessential features of the tourist performance, the environmental repercussions of s...

The 2nd International Conference on “Times of Polymer” was held at the Congress Centre of the Continental Terme Hotel (Ischia, Italy) from the 20th to 23rd of June 2004. The Conference was organized by Prof. Alberto D'Amore (The Second University of Naples–SUN) and Prof. Domenico Acierno (University of Naples Federico II), as in its first edition. The Italian Associations of Materials (AIMAT) and Macromolecules (AIM), the Italian Society of Rheology and the National Institute of Materials Science and Technology (INSTM) sponsored the Conference and funding was received from INSTM and companies working within the area of research equipments (ATSFAAR; Belotti Strumenti, MP Strumenti, Perkin Elmer, Viscomate, Zwick/Roell-Italy).