Tourism gentrification as an extractive and colonial device

Giacomo-Maria Salerno

Chapter 3 in Handbook on Tourism Gentrification, 2025, pp 40-55 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The chapter addresses tourism gentrification as a particular urban manifestation of a broader transformation of contemporary capitalism towards a financialised extractive model. In the context of “planetary urbanisation” and contemporary “urban society”, tourism is shown to be a key driver in the production of space, realising a spatial division of labour through the identification of leisure territories on which it enacts its extractive operations. Tourism is addressed also as a colonial device, for it produces an economic model that makes the conspicuous consumption of resources accumulated over the centuries its distinctive feature. The chapter thus provides a theoretical reconstruction of the entanglement between tourism, extractivism and colonial economies and highlights their territorial effects in terms of tourist gentrification and displacement in light of the most recent trends in tourism economy.

Keywords: Tourism; Gentrification; Extractivism; Coloniality; Heritagisation; Touristification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035327348
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