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The growing role and relevance of tourism in cities – and of cities in tourism – has in recent decades emerged as a topic of great interest to scholars across many social sciences disciplines. Yet, while urban tourism research has flourished, various issues relating to tourism in metropolitan contexts are in need of greater scholarly engagement. What forms does tourism take in today’s metropolises and metropolitan regions? How do these forms differ from tourism in other urban contexts? Are these differences significant enough to warrant the classification of ‘metropolitan tourism’ as a distinct type of urban tourism? What are their implications for policy and planning processes? How do policy and planning processes in different metropolises and metropolitan regions differ from each other, and what can they learn from each other? And finally, how could tourism in metropolises and metropolitan regions be made more sustainable, resilient, and inclusive? Given the importance widely attributed to major metropolises and metropolitan regions as contemporary engines of economic development, innovation, and change, the widespread portrayal of tourism as a leading economic and social force of the 21st century, and the fact that the world's large metropolitan areas are key recipients of tourism flows, it is surprising how little systematic attention is paid to tourism in metropolitan contexts. This book aims to fill these gaps.

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Author:   Maria Gravari-Barbas ,  Sébastien Jacquot ,  Maja Jovic ,  Johannes Novy
Publisher:   University of Westminster Press
Imprint:   University of Westminster Press
ISBN:  

9781915445261

ISBN 10:   1915445264
Pages:   645
Publication Date:   22 January 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Tourism as a metropolitan phenomenon: legacies, turning points and prospects Maria Gravari-Barbas, Sébastien Jacquot, Maja Jović, Johannes Novy PART 1: The spatiality of metropolitan tourism Introduction to part 1 Maria Gravari-Barbas, Sébastien Jacquot, Maja Jović and Johannes Novy 1. Madrid, Metropolitan Tourism Transformation María García-Hernández and Manuel de la Calle-Vaquero 2. Los Angeles, Inhabiting the Tourist Metapolis Leopold Lucas 3. The phenomenon of the spatial organisation of metropolitan tourism: the case of St. Petersburg Valery Gordin, Anastasiia Polomarchuk and Anastasiia Korman 4. Metropolitan tourism and urban redevelopment in South Africa: Creating uneven geographies? Gustav Visser 5. The global metropolis as a tourism and leisure playground: megaprojects in Kuala Lumpur metropolitan space Frédéric Bouchon 6. Palermo Soho: urban transformation, metropolitan lifestyles, and tourism in the creation of a trendy neighbourhood in the city of Buenos Aires Mercedes González Bracco 7. Thanatourism in London and the Metropolitan Imaginary Pippa Catterall PART 2: Politics and Governance of Metropolitan Tourism Introduction to part 2 Maria Gravari-Barbas, Sébastien Jacquot, Maja Jović and Johannes Novy 8. Fragmented Dynamics of Touristification and Urban Development in the Metropolis of Paris Tim Freytag, Florian Weber and Nora Winsky 9. Tourism and the New York Metropolitan Region: Chaos, compromise and Collaboration Jill Simone Gross 10. Tourism, Planification and Metropolises in 21st Century China: Jing-Jin-Ji and Yangtze Delta River Cases Françoise Ged, Chensi Shen, Lian Hu and Chunyan Zhang 11. Constructing metropolitan scales and metropolitan cultural tourism in China’s Greater Bay Area Jie Li and Honggang Xu 12. Laboratory of Consumption: Macau’s Metropolitan Tourism Tim Simpson 13. The impossible joint governance? Tourism and metropolises in the Shanghai megalopolis. Benjamin Taunay Part 3:Practices and representations of metropolitan tourism Introduction to part 3 Maria Gravari-Barbas, Sébastien Jacquot, Maja Jović and Johannes Novy 14. From Forgotten Borders to New Centralities: Emerging Tourism Practices and Concepts in São Paulo (Brazil) Camila Cardoso Ribeiro, Paulo Tácio Aires Ferreira, Thiago Allis and Reinaldo Tadeu Boscolo Pacheco 15. Tokyo as a Tourism Metropolis Eranga Ranaweerage, Taiyo Yagasaki and Toshio Kikuchi 16. Beyond The Gateway of India: Pertinent and Misplaced Narratives of 21st Century Mumbai’s Tourism Bhagyasshree Ramakrishna and Shruthi Ramesh 17. Tourists in the many-sided metropolis Robert Pascoe and Chris McConville 18. Tourists of the Metropolis: Vertical recreation between West and East Desmond Wee 19. Destination Metropolis: from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Centuries Ulrike Zitzlspergger Conclusion Maria Gravari-Barbas, Sébastien Jacquot, Maja Jović and Johannes Novy

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Maria Gravari-Barbas is a professor of Geography at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, France. Trained as an architect and social geographer, her research focuses on urban and metropolitan transformations in relation to heritagization, gentrification, and tourism. She is the Director of EIREST, a multidisciplinary research team dedicated to tourism studies. Since 2009, she has been the director of the UNESCO Chair at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and the coordinator of the UNITWIN network Tourism, Culture, Development. Maria is also the Head of the PhD programme in Cultural Heritage at the European University Alliance Una Europa. Sébastien Jacquot is a lecturer in geography at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne at the Institute for Research and Studies in Tourism (IREST). Since 2020 he is the director of IREST. He is a member of the EA EIREST interdisciplinary research team in tourism, and an associate member of the UMR PRODIG. He is co-responsible for the Heritage Working Group of the Labex Dynamite, member of the UNITWIN network attached to the UNESCO Chair Culture, Tourism, Development. His research is in line with social and urban geography, and focuses on heritage policies, World Heritage and intangible heritage, tourism and digital social networks, tourism observation, metropolitan tourism, heritage from below, globalization and circulations. Maja Jović is Assistant Head of School of Architecture + Cities at the University of Westminster and Director of Interdisciplinarity and Collaboration. With a background in architecture, her work spans architecture, heritage, tourism, and critical urban studies. She co-founded and co-leads the MA Architecture and Sustainable Heritage programme. Her recent research explores tourism’s role in metropolitan transformation, diasporic communities in metropolises, heritage safeguarding in (post)conflict environments, and the preservation of urban creative capital. Beyond academia, she advises cultural consultancies and branding agencies on urban and tourism development, adaptive reuse of heritage sites, and heritage policies. She contributes as a critic to architecture studios and international competitions, serves on scientific committees and editorial boards, curates exhibitions, and organises workshops and conferences. Johannes Novy is a senior lecturer at the University of Westminster, where he leads the MA Urban and Regional Planning program. His research focuses on urban planning theory, politics, tourism, and leisure consumption. He has (co-)authored or edited numerous scholarly publications, but also writes for non-academic audiences, and engages in various professional activities beyond academia, e.g. as consultant or advisor in the realms of urban and tourism development, planning, and policy. He serves on the Curatorial board of the Internationale Bauausstellung Stuttgart-Region 2027 and is part of the European Commission's New European Bauhaus Facility expert group.

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