Contested discourses in social tourism: A relational political economy perspective

Raoul V. Bianchi, Scott McCabe, José David Cisneros-Martínez and J. Andrés Domínguez-Gómez

Annals of Tourism Research, 2023, vol. 102, issue C

Abstract: Social tourism initiatives often have economic as well as objectives, particularly national schemes such as the Spanish IMSERSO programme, designed to stimulate off-season tourism in mass coastal tourism destinations. Yet, there is little evidence of how such schemes responded to crises or that explores the effects on the tourism industry actors responsible for programme delivery. This article applies a relational political economy approach to assess the contested discourses surrounding the governance of the scheme. We examine the evolution of the IMSERSO programme longitudinally following the global financial crisis and up until the COVID-19 pandemic to assess the relational dynamics at play social tourism governance on destination stakeholders, outlining implications for social tourism policies internationally.

Keywords: Social tourism; Political economy; Governance discourse; IMSERSO (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2023.103640

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