Tourism and the Night

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

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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