Tourismphobia
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Tourismphobia is a well-formed neologism derived from the noun tourism and the compositional element -phobia. Although tourismophobia can be understood as the 'aversion or rejection of tourism', the media and political movements has been using it in the most specific context of the rejection of overtourism, a tourism model characterised by massification and its negative consequences for the local population and workers.[1]
Characterization
[edit]Since the decade of the 2010 a criticism against tourist saturation led – in many cases – by activism and political parties has begun to spread in several tourist destinations, especially urban ones. Starting in the second half of the last century, the dissemination of tourism in neighborhoods and urban centers has generated a social claim based on the idea that overtourism is the direct cause of negative impacts such as unstable, seasonal and low salaries, degradation of the natural areas, difficulties to access to rental properties with increasing prices, environmental pollution, traffic problems and noise.[2]
The neologism has also been used in the media to tag the acts of vandalism, protests and incidents with tourists during protests in South Europe against overtourism.[3]
Chronology of the neologism
[edit]The conflict represented by the neologism has been studied in academia since the 70's such as in George Doxey; who covered it from the root of the tourist destination.[4] The problematic has not stopped being studied since then and the term overtourism became popular in academia after the launch of some journals' special issues in 2017. In parallel the protests in several cities of Southern Europe introduced the neologism tourismphobia as well in the acamemia and the political argumentation of several parties in Europe.[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Breda / Guizi /Costa /Veríssimo / Moraes, Zélia / Alan / Carlos / Medéia / Michelle (2020), "2. Background", Overtourism and tourismphobia: A systematic literature review, University of Aveiro, Portugal, pp. 156–157
- ^ Milano, Claudio; Novelli, Marina; Cheer, Joseph M. (4 July 2019). "Overtourism and Tourismphobia: A Journey Through Four Decades of Tourism Development, Planning and Local Concerns". tandfonline.com. doi:10.1080/21568316.2019.1599604 (inactive 8 December 2024). Retrieved 2024-08-12.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of December 2024 (link) - ^ "Turismofobia en Barcelona: los "ataques" contra turistas con pistolas de agua dan la vuelta al mundo". eldebate.com. 9 July 2024. Retrieved 2024-08-12.
- ^ "Doxey, G. V. (1975). A causation theory of visitor/resident irritants: Methodology and research inferences. Proceedings of the Travel Research Association 6th Annual Conference (pp. 195–198). San Diego: Travel Research Association". Google Scholar. Retrieved 2024-08-12.
- ^ Georgescu Paquin, Alexandra; Cerdan Schwitzguébel, Aurélie (2021). "Analysis of Barcelona's tourist landscape as projected in tourism promotional videos". International Journal of Tourism Cities. 7 (2): 257–277. doi:10.1108/ijtc-03-2020-0046. Retrieved 2024-08-12.