Tourism and Gentrification in Contemporary Metropolises

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List of contributors

Introduction: Addressing tourism-gentrification processes in contemporary metropolises

Maria Gravari-Barbas and Sandra Guinand

Part I Tourism gentrification, heritagization and urban regeneration

Chapter 2 A new colonization of a Caribbean city: urban regeneration policies as a strategy for tourism development and gentrification in Santo Domingo's Colonial City

Jesus M. Gonzalez Perez

Chapter 3 Airbnb and tourism gentrification: critical insights from the exploratory analysis of the 'Airbnb syndrome' in Reykjavik

Anne-Cecile Mermet

Chapter 4 Tourism gentrification in the cities of Latin American: the socio-economic trajectory of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

Sairi T. Pineros

Part II Tourism gentrification and the urban cultural and creative turn

Chapter 5 The Barrio Chino as last frontier: the penetration of everyday tourism in the dodgy heart of the Raval

Alan Quaglieri Dominguez and Alessandro Scarnato

Chapter 6 Rome: a cultural capital with a poor working-class heritage: strategies of touristification and artification

Sarah Lilia Baudry

Chapter 7 Grunge authenticity: the tenement as upscale tourist destination

Elissa Sampson

Part III Who are the tourism gentrifiers?

Chapter 8 The sharing economy and its role in metropolitan tourism

Natalie Stors and Andreas Kagermeier

Chapter 9 Post-tourism on the waterfront: bringing back locals and residents at the Seaport

Sandra Guinand

Chapter 10 Playing for/with Time: tourism and heritage in Greece and Thailand

Michael Herzfeld

Part IV Forms and expressions of tourism gentrification: a critical analysis

Chapter 11 Tourism and urban changes: lessons from Lisbon

Teresa Barata-Salgueiro, Luis Mendes and Pedro Guimaraes

Chapter 12 The rent gap re-examined: tourism gentrification in the context of rapid urbanisation in China

Zeng-Xian Liang

Chapter 13 Super-gentrification and hyper-tourismification in Le Marais, Paris

Maria Gravari-Barbas

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