Barcelona, Tourism & Development

The program stems from the general hypothesis that human mobilities at different scales, along with their interconnections and links to other physical and immaterial mobilities, are catalytic factors in processes of change in tourism destinations. In the city of Barcelona, such transformations are produced not only from within urban structures, environmental conditions and technologies but also in institutional, socioeconomic, cognitive and cultural domains, generating new information, images, perceptions and discourses of places, while provoking stakeholder and agency-based decision-making processes and triggering tensions, solutions and redistribution dynamics that in turn shape the evolutionary trajectory of destinations in terms of path plasticity effects.

Different types of human, material and immaterial mobilities generate a diversity of organisational and strategic political decisions from a multitude of different agents. These intersect with complex, overlapping elements such as economic, spatial, temporal and cognitive behaviour that cannot be considered as extraneous to any changes in the urban structure of tourism destinations. This program approaches these questions from a multi-scalar perspective that includes regional and local spaces at the destination level and micro-local spaces such as tourism districts, tourism attractions, urban sectors and tourism centres.

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