Touristification. Empty concept or element of analysis in tourism geography?

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Since the end of the last century, geographers have been using the concept of touristification understood as a complex process in which various stakeholders interfere, transforming a territory through tourist activity. However, over recent years, this word has become popular in other areas with a distinct connotation, understanding touristification as a negative idea of tourism, like the massification of a destination or as a synonymous for gentrification or tourism-phobia. This situation discourages the use of the term and causes the necessity to question the usefulness of the concept, considered as too ambiguous or even empty. We argue for a correct use of the term touristification, focused on the territorial phenomenon and process it is meant to describe in a geographical approach without ideological preconceived notion, to construct knowledge from a territorial understanding of tourism in an ever-globalized world.
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Authors Ojeda, Antonio B;Kieffer, Maxime;
Journal Geoforum; journal of physical, human, and regional geosciences
Year 2020
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10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.06.021
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Globalization multidisciplinary territoriality territory tourism geography touristification

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