Area Regeneration and Tourism Development. Evidence from Three European Cities

Jan van der Borg () and Antonio Russo
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Jan van der Borg: Department of Economics, University Of Venice Ca� Foscari
Antonio Russo: University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

No 2008_21, Working Papers from Department of Economics, University of Venice "Ca' Foscari"

Abstract: This paper discusses a key issue in the framework of modern urban development policies: the role of cultural tourism in processes of urban transformation. The analysis focuses specifically on how the emphasis on the symbolic in the restructuring of certain areas of the city may function like a spinwheel for the regeneration of urban economies, and on the stability of this process. The paper presents the cases of three European cities -Barcelona, Manchester and Rotterdam-, all of which are believed to be templates in cultural planning, and have been successful, to different extents, as tourism destinations. In the three cities, the peculiar relationship between area renewal through cultural development projects and tourism has unravelled in different ways that are revelatory of structural, as well as contingent, differences in tourism policy organisation and contexts, and that present different challenges for the future.

Keywords: Urban; revitalization; development; tourism; cultural assets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O52 R00 R58 Z10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24
Date: 2008
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cul, nep-geo, nep-tur and nep-ure
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