Urban Industrial Tourism: Cultural Sustainability as a Tool for Confronting Overtourism—Cases of Madrid, Brussels, and Copenhagen

Carmen Hidalgo-Giralt, Antonio Palacios-García, Diego Barrado-Timón and José Antonio Rodríguez-Esteban
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Carmen Hidalgo-Giralt: Department of Geography, Autónoma University of Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
Antonio Palacios-García: Department of Geography, Autónoma University of Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
Diego Barrado-Timón: Department of Geography, Autónoma University of Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
José Antonio Rodríguez-Esteban: Department of Geography, Autónoma University of Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 9, 1-26

Abstract: The chief objective of this research was to analyze how the industrial heritage of three European capitals—Madrid, Brussels, and Copenhagen—has been integrated into the dynamics of their urban tourism, thereby generating new resources and cultural spaces. In regards to the latter point, this study poses the working hypothesis that industrial heritage can function as a tool for cultural sustainability, which allows for deconcentration away from historic city centers subjected to significant overtourism. To verify this hypothesis, a methodology has been designed based on the selection of specific indicators and the creation of maps, taking as reference data from the Tripadvisor travel portal. The results obtained are truly encouraging, and it would be interesting to expand this study by incorporating new case studies to allow us to discern additional patterns of behavior around urban industrial tourism.

Keywords: overtourism; sustainability; industrial heritage; industrial tourism; new urban spaces; cultural resources (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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