found: Work cat: The power of new urban tourism, 2021publisher's info. (The Power of new urban tourism explores new forms of tourism in urban areas with their social, political, architectural, and economic implications on a global stage. Contributors to the volume show how urban space has become a battleground between local residents and visitors, with changing perceptions of tourists as co-users of public and private urban spaces and as influencers of the local economies. This includes different roles of digital platforms as resources for access to the city and touristic opportunities as well as means to organise protest) (DLC)2021004856
found: UN World Tourism Organization web site, Feb. 26, 2021Urban tourism (According to UNWTO, Urban Tourism is "a type of tourism activity which takes place in an urban space with its inherent attributes characterized by non-agricultural based economy such as administration, manufacturing, trade and services and by being nodal points of transport. Urban/city destinations offer a broad and heterogeneous range of cultural, architectural, technological, social and natural experiences and products for leisure and business")
found: Smith, M., Urban tourism; In Key concepts in tourist studies, 2010p. 179 (Urban tourism refers to visiting cities and towns with the purpose of sightseeing, shopping, doing business or enjoying the entertainment facilities. Urban tourism was one of the earliest forms of tourism, but there was a major shift away from this kind of tourism to coastal, rural or mountain destinations from the 1950s or so until the 1980s. It is not therefore a new form of tourism, but one which is re-emerging. Although urban areas have always attracted visitors, it has only been in recent years that tourism has been recognised as a major contributor to the urban economy)
notfound: Handbook of social tourismHandbook of globalisation and tourism
