Challenges for European Tourist-City-Ports: Strategies for a Sustainable Coexistence in the Cruise Post-COVID Context

María J. Andrade, João Pedro Costa and Eduardo Jiménez-Morales
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María J. Andrade: Departamento Arte y Arquitectura, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Universidad de Málaga, Plaza El Ejido, 2, 29013 Málaga, Spain
João Pedro Costa: CIAUD, Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura, Urbanismo e Design, Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa, Rua Sá Nogueira, Pólo Universitário do Alto da Ajuda, 1349-063 Lisbon, Portugal
Eduardo Jiménez-Morales: Departamento Arte y Arquitectura, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Universidad de Málaga, Plaza El Ejido, 2, 29013 Málaga, Spain

Land, 2021, vol. 10, issue 11, 1-20

Abstract: In recent years, cruise tourism has increased the negative effects caused by touristification in many European port cities. Despite this, these cities are in a great competition to be a destination, a tourist-port. Cruise tourism has come to stay, and a steady growth can be expected in a post-COVID-19 scenario, but at what cost? The tourist-port demands highly effective planning answers occurring simultaneously, and the global pandemic crisis provides a buffer of time to seek best practices, combining the expected economical (re)development with social, environmental, and cultural sustainability. This paper proposes five different strategies that contribute to finding a sustainable coexistence between tourist ports and their cities. To this end, trans-scalar strategies developed in previous research from different disciplines have been studied and categorized in a port-city context, in order to provide a holistic viewpoint on the measures carried out to maximize the benefits and limit the negative impacts of cruise tourism on cities.

Keywords: urban tourism; cruise tourism; local identity; touristification; urban planning; cruise ports; sustainable tourism; sustainable development; overtourism; responsible tourism; destination management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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