Tourism and the Night

Rethinking Nocturnal Destinations
Herausgeber: Eldridge, Adam; Smith, Andrew

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Over recent decades, municipal authorities have promoted their cities as places boasting desirable night-time activities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 126
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 183mm x 255mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 370g
• ISBN-13: 9780367695132
• ISBN-10: 0367695138
• Artikelnr.: 67520395

Autorenporträt

Andrew Smith is a Reader in the School of Architecture and Cities at the University of Westminster, UK. He is the author of Events in the City: Using Public Spaces as Event Venues (2016) and Events and Urban Regeneration: The Strategic Use of Events to Revitalise Cities (2012). Adam Eldridge is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Westminster, UK. He is the co-author of Planning the Night Time City (2009) and co-editor of Exploring Nightlife: Space, Society and Governance (2018). His research examines the night as a source of debates about public space, leisure, and identity.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Tourism and the night: towards a broader understanding of
nocturnal city destinations 1. Decoding middle-class protest against
low-cost nocturnal tourism in Madrid 2. Gentrification, tourism and the
night-time economy in Budapest's district VII - the role of regulation in a
post-socialist context 3. Commuting and the urban night: nocturnal
mobilities in tourism and hospitality work 4. Strangers in the night:
nightlife studies and new urban tourism 5. Nocturnal ritual activities in
tourist development of pilgrimage cities 6. Residents versus visitors at
light festivals in cities: the case of Barcelona 7. Fairy tale tourism: the
architectural projection mapping of magically real and irreal festival
lightscapes