This book aims to be the first substantive text to explain the multiple and complex relationships between tourism and gentrification in contemporary metropolises. The text approaches these issues in an innovative way, by looking at a diverse range of metropolises in a diverse range of countries and by dealing with the different relations and management issues generated by gentrification in relation with tourism. Through interdisciplinary approaches, this text sheds light on the role tourism plays in contemporary metropolises furthering knowledge of urban tourism. It will be of particular interest to scholars and students of tourism, urban studies, geography and sociology.

Maria Gravari-Barbas is an architect and geographer. She is Professor and Director of the Institute for Research and High Studies of Tourism (IREST) and a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Team for Tourism Research (EIREST), Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. Her research focuses on the contemporary production of urban spaces in relation to tourism, architecture, heritage and festive phenomena.

Sandra Guinand is an urban-planner and geographer. She is a FNS Fellow, visiting researcher at the Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung, Vienna University, associate researcher at EIREST, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and Centre Jacques Berque. Her research interests focus on urban regeneration projects, socio-economical transformations of urban landscape, with a specific focus on heritage processes and public-private partnerships

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Introduction: Addressing tourism-gentrification processes in contemporary metropolises

Maria Gravari-Barbas and Sandra Guinand

Part I Tourism gentrification, heritagization and urban regeneration

Chapter 2 A new colonization of a Caribbean city: urban regeneration policies as a strategy for tourism development and gentrification in Santo Domingo's Colonial City

Jesús M. González Pérez

Chapter 3 Airbnb and tourism gentrification: critical insights from the exploratory analysis of the 'Airbnb syndrome' in Reykjavík

Anne-Cécile Mermet

Chapter 4 Tourism gentrification in the cities of Latin American: the socio-economic trajectory of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

Sairi T. Pineros

Part II Tourism gentrification and the urban cultural and creative turn

Chapter 5 The Barrio Chino as last frontier: the penetration of everyday tourism in the dodgy heart of the Raval

Alan Quaglieri Domínguez and Alessandro Scarnato

Chapter 6 Rome: a cultural capital with a poor working-class heritage: strategies of touristification and artification

Sarah Lilia Baudry

Chapter 7 Grunge authenticity: the tenement as upscale tourist destination

Elissa Sampson

Part III Who are the tourism gentrifiers?

Chapter 8 The sharing economy and its role in metropolitan tourism

Natalie Stors and Andreas Kagermeier

Chapter 9 Post-tourism on the waterfront: bringing back locals and residents at the Seaport

Sandra Guinand

Chapter 10 Playing for/with Time: tourism and heritage in Greece and Thailand

Michael Herzfeld

Part IV Forms and expressions of tourism gentrification: a critical analysis

Chapter 11 Tourism and urban changes: lessons from Lisbon

Teresa Barata-Salgueiro, Luis Mendes and Pedro Guimarães

Chapter 12 The rent gap re-examined: tourism gentrification in the context of rapid urbanisation in China

Zeng-Xian Liang

Chapter 13 Super-gentrification and hyper-tourismification in Le Marais, Paris

Maria Gravari-Barbas

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