The Future of City Tourism
A Special Issue of the Journal of Tourism Futures
Cities are a cornerstone of today’s and tomorrow’s travel and tourism. They are the place of origin, transit, return and destination of most global tourists and travellers. City tourism is the fastest growing segment of the leisure travel market. From 2007 to 2015 the number of city trips showed an increase of 82% and reached a market share of 22% of all holidays. On the contrary, countryside or rural tourism stagnated during this period and its share decreased to 7% (IPK International , 2015). In addition, cities are visited during cruises (+248%), touring holidays (+21%), sun and beach (+39%), and countryside holidays (+0%). In some countries (such as England), city trips have already overtaken sun and beach holidays as the most popular type of holidays (ABTA, 2014). Brock (2015) argues that city tourism will most likely experience a sharp growth in the future.
This raises questions such as: Which developments drive this sharp growth of city tourism in the future? How and in what ways will this growth be tackled by tourism industries, public and private sectors? How will cities have to manage the growth of tourism in a sustainable way? What will be the social, economic, spatial, and political implications of increased city tourism? How will tourists, locals, and everyone else in between, share the same city space? How can cities retain their uniqueness?
A special issue dedicated to this topic is scheduled to be published in December 2017.
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Guest Editors
Dr. Albert Postma, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Dr. Dorina M. Buda, University of Groningen, Spatial Sciences, Groningen, Netherlands
Dr. Ir. Katharina Gugerell, University of Groningen, Groningen, Spatial Sciences, Netherlands
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Dr Albert Postma
Co-editor, Journal of Tourism Futures