Touristification. Empty concept or element of analysis in tourism geography?

Since the end of the last century, geographers have been using the concept of touristification understood as a complex process in which various stakeholders interfere, transforming a territory through tourist activity. However, over recent years, this word has become popular in other areas with a di...

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Published inGeoforum Vol. 115; pp. 143 - 145
Main Authors Ojeda, Antonio B., Kieffer, Maxime
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Ltd 01.10.2020
Subjects
Globalization
Multidisciplinary
Territoriality
Territory
Tourism geography
Touristification
Territory
Territoriality
Tourism geography
Globalization
Multidisciplinary
Touristification
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Summary:Since the end of the last century, geographers have been using the concept of touristification understood as a complex process in which various stakeholders interfere, transforming a territory through tourist activity. However, over recent years, this word has become popular in other areas with a distinct connotation, understanding touristification as a negative idea of tourism, like the massification of a destination or as a synonymous for gentrification or tourism-phobia. This situation discourages the use of the term and causes the necessity to question the usefulness of the concept, considered as too ambiguous or even empty. We argue for a correct use of the term touristification, focused on the territorial phenomenon and process it is meant to describe in a geographical approach without ideological preconceived notion, to construct knowledge from a territorial understanding of tourism in an ever-globalized world.
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ISSN:0016-7185
1872-9398
DOI:10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.06.021