Overtourism and employment outcomes for the tourism worker: impacts to labour markets

Het Expertisenetwerk Duurzaam Stedelijk Toerisme is verbonden aan het lectoraat New Urban Tourism. Aan het hoofd van dit lectoraat staat lector Ko Koens. Op regelmatige basis zullen op deze website wetenschappelijke publicaties verschijnen van Ko Koens en collega-onderzoekers die bijdragen aan het lectoraat New Urban Tourism.

In de publicatie: ” Overtourism and employment outcomes for the tourism worker: impacts to labour markets” analyseren Andreas Walmsley, Ko Koens en Claudio Milano de gevolgen van overtoerisme met betrekking tot het niveau van werkgelegenheid op verschillende bestemmingen.

New Urban Tourism

Within New Urban Tourism, part of the Creative Business knowledge centre, we focus on tourism as an integral part of the urban environment. Tourists literally walk among locals and use the same facilities. In other words, they cannot be considered a separate entity. But how do these large groups of visitors affect cities and neighbourhoods? And can we find a way for tourism to benefit the city? For instance, can we design activities in such a way that they engender new local business, make places more liveable and make locals prouder of their neighbourhoods? What can we learn about this from studies carried out in other cities abroad? We take a holistic approach to tourism, combining an international frame of mind with a local approach. In our lab environments, in association with stakeholders, we design interventions designed to help us gain a better understanding of underlying processes in major cities and their surroundings and ultimately to improve these regions.

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