Understanding Nighttime Tourism

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Understanding Nighttime Tourism

9781035322732 Edward Elgar Publishing
Edited by Manuel Garcia-Ruiz, Associate Researcher in Sociology, Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) and Jordi Nofre, FCT Associate Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Center of Social Sciences, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal
Publication Date: October 2024 ISBN: 978 1 03532 273 2 Extent: 170 pp
Looking beyond traditional nightlife dominated by bars, discos, and organized parties, this timely book explores the shift in the nightlife tourism industry motivated by growing environmental awareness and a move towards more sustainable tourism. Manuel Garcia-Ruiz and Jordi Nofre bring together scholars from the Global North and the Global South into dialogue to build a decolonized body of knowledge in the specific field of night studies.

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Looking beyond traditional nightlife dominated by bars, discos, and organized parties, this timely book explores the shift in the nightlife tourism industry motivated by growing environmental awareness and a move towards more sustainable tourism. Manuel Garcia-Ruiz and Jordi Nofre bring together scholars from the Global North and the Global South into dialogue to build a decolonized body of knowledge in the specific field of night studies.

Understanding Nighttime Tourism provides an interdisciplinary perspective on this underexplored topic. Using a series of thought-provoking case studies, the authors cover key topics including edutourism and urban nightlife, the nighttime economy, festivalization, proximity and heritage tourism, touristification of urban spaces, and destination image. Ultimately, the book offers an example of activist science committed to more just, inclusive and sustainable cities.

Written in an accessible style, this book provides an incisive study of this increasingly important area of research for students of tourism studies, leisure studies and urban studies. The invigorating case studies also make this an important book for urban planners and policy makers.
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‘Understanding Nighttime Tourism engages with diverse aspects of tourism after dark. Seven richly detailed case studies are presented from cities in Europe and Central and Latin America. This volume provides insights into scholarly approaches to this exciting topic, while simultaneously setting out the challenges to the sector.’
– Marion Roberts, University of Westminster, UK

‘Garcia-Ruiz and Nofre have produced a groundbreaking and timely exploration of nighttime tourism, with diverse case studies from cities around the world. This book is indispensable for researchers seeking to understand the multiple challenges and conflicts produced by nighttime tourism, and the need to balance its promises and excitement with the needs of local communities.’
– Robert Shaw, Newcastle University, UK

‘As global tourism bounces back from the COVID-19 pandemic, Understanding Nighttime Tourism offers a much needed set of tools and cases through which it might be understood. The chapters covered here are diverse in their geographical focus, rich in their methodological diversity and sharp in their conclusions and directions for future research. Highly recommended.’
– Will Straw, McGill University, Canada
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1 Introduction: The multiple facets of nighttime tourism 1
Manuel Garcia-Ruiz and Jordi Nofre
2 Mediating nighttime culture in the historic city: Re-purposing growth economics in heritage tourism 15
Anna Louise Hill, Jenny Hall and Brendan Paddison
3 Urban nightlife and edutourism: What attracts Erasmus students to Krakow? 37
Łukasz Matoga, Robert Pawlusiński and Magdalena Kubal-Czerwińska
4 Lights On Romania: Dynamics of proximity tourism in cultural and urban activation 57
Manuel Garcia-Ruiz
5 The Nightlife-Tourism Nexus in the Urban Regeneration of Porto Maravilha, Rio de Janeiro 81
Marcos Paulo Ferreira de Góis
6 Stigmatization, marginalization, and leadership 100
Jordi Nofre
7 Evolution and current situation of nightlife on Ibiza island (Spain) 117
José Ramón Cardona
8 Nocturnal Shifts: Assessing the impacts of nighttime yourism in Mazatlán’s historic downtown 134
Miriam Nava-Zazueta and Alejandro Mercado-Célis
9 The future of nighttime tourism: More than challenges 154
Jordi Nofre and Manuel Garcia-Ruiz
Index 160
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