Urban industrial tourism: Cultural sustainability as a tool for confronting overtourism—cases of Madrid, Brussels, and Copenhagen
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UAM. Departamento de GeografíaPublisher
MDPI, Basel, SwitzerlandDate
2021-04-22Citation
10.3390/su13094694
Sustainability 13.9 (2021): 4694
ISSN
2071-1050DOI
10.3390/su13094694Funded by
This research forms part of a competitive project “Culture and Territory in Spain: Processes and Impacts in Small and Medium-Sized Cities” (Ref CSO2017-83603-C2-2-R), financed by the State Research Program “Development and Innovation Oriented to the Challenges of Society” of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, within the framework of the State Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation, 2013–2016Project
Gobierno de España. CSO2017-83603-C2-2-REditor's Version
https://doi.org/10.3390/su13094694Subjects
Cultural resources; Industrial heritage; Industrial tourism; New urban spaces; Overtourism; Sustainability; GeografíaRights
© 2021 The authorsAbstract
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 Tripad-visor 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.
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