Moving to the tourist city: new residents’ perspectives on tourism and quality of life in Venice's historical centre

Emanuele Giordano

Chapter 13 in Handbook on Tourism Gentrification, 2025, pp 222-235 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Using Venice as a case study, this chapter explores the agency of tourism on the restructuring of social geographies in (over)touristified heritage cities. Combining a socio-demographic analysis with in-depth interviews with individuals who have moved to the area, the chapter shows how the relentless expansion of the Venice tourist dimension not only disrupts the position of the long-term residents but also increasingly compromises the city's capacity to attract and stabilise high-skilled and/or wealthy individuals into its resident population. By doing so, it expands the current understanding of how neighbourhood change occurs in touristified areas and reveals the difficulties in directly linking touristification with forms of lifestyle migration and gentrification in certain destinations.

Keywords: Touristification; Tourism gentrification; Venice; Residences; Perspective; Urban change; Overtourism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035327348
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/doi/10.4337/9781035327355.00023 (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 403 Forbidden

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:23070_15

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Jack Sweeney ().