Handbook of Research on the Impacts, Challenges, and Policy Responses to Overtourism: (Advances in Hospitality, Tourism, and the Services Industry)

In recent years, the increasing number of tourists traveling to specific urban and resort destinations has caused challenges for the effective management of tourism in these areas, with a resulting negative impact on towns, cities, and host communities. Such issues have included placing undue pressure on infrastructure; destruction of the physical, economic, and socio-cultural environment; and affecting the quality of residents' daily lives by impacting their mobility and, in some cases, the price and rent of resident accommodation, goods, and services. To achieve a certain level of balance between the interests of local residents and visitors, new regulatory measures and legislation in high tourism areas must be discussed. The Handbook of Research on the Impacts, Challenges, and Policy Responses to Overtourism is a collection of innovative research on best practices and legislation solutions for the management of tourism destinations suffering from overtourism, tourismophobia, or antitourism movement issues. While highlighting topics including overcrowding, social displacement, and tourism management, this book is ideally designed for local government officials, policymakers, lawmakers, researchers, entrepreneurs, industry professionals, travel agencies, hotels, academicians, and students seeking current innovative empirical research on destination-management practices and application techniques.

About the Author :
Cláudia Ribeiro de Almeida is Professor of Tourism at School of Management, Hospitality and Tourism of the University of Algarve. She is the Tourism Course Director since 2017. She holds a PhD and a Post Doctoral Degree in Tourism (University of Aveiro), a MA in Total Quality Management (Universidade Politécnica da Cataluña) and a BSc in Marketing (University of Algarve). Cláudia Ribeiro de Almeida's current research interests include Air transport & Tourism dynamics; Second home tourism and Decision making process. She is a member of the Research Centre for Tourism, Sustainability and Well-Being (CinTurs) of University of Algarve. She is a member of several research projets. Professor Cláudia is reviewer of several national and international journals. Alfred Quintano is a Malta based senior lecturer and management consultant specialising in the Tourism, Aviation and Hospitality sectors. He holds a PhD from the University of Portsmouth, an MBA from Maastricht School of Management and a BA (Honours) degree in Economics from the University of Malta. He has published academic and trade papers and a book on decision choice analysis in the Hospitality industry. Moisés Simancas is a Senior Lecturer of Department of Geography at La Laguna University. PhD in Geography. Master's Degree in Environmental Impact Assessment. Coordinator of the research group of the ULL "ReinvenTUR: renovation and tourist innovation". Deputy Director of the Tourism Chair CajaCanarias-Ashotel-University of La Laguna. The current lines of research are analyzes of public policies for renovation of mature tourist areas and tourism territorial planning. Raquel Huete is an Associate Professor in Tourism Studies at the University of Alicante (Spain). She holds a PhD in Sociology from the UA and a BA in Tourism Management from the Official Tourism School in Madrid. She is a researcher at the University Institute for Tourism Research at UA. She has taught at the UA delivering classes on sociology of tourism, social research and local development. In addition to giving worldwide lectures on second home tourism and urban sustainability, she has guest lectured at events and conferences worldwide and contributes to the tourism community through a number of boards and memberships. Dr Huete has been a researcher in about 50 R & D projects and research contracts. She has been a principal researcher in several projects. This work has been reflected in more than 60 articles published in scientific journals and chapters in collective books. Prior to teaching at the university she worked as a travel agent and tourist guide and also she held several positions related to Higher Education Management. She held a position as Director-General for Tourism at the Region of Valencia Government from 2016 to 2018. Her expertise areas are: public opinion in tourism, relationship between tourism and migrations, sustainability and smart tourism destinations. Zélia Breda holds a Ph.D. in Tourism, a MA in Chinese Studies (Business and International Relations) and a BSc in Tourism Management and Planning from the University of Aveiro, where she is Assistant Professor, at the Department of Economics, Management, Industrial Engineering, and Tourism (DEGEIT), holding the position of Director of the Master's in Tourism Management and Planning. She is a senior member of the Research Unit ‘Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies’ (GOVCOPP) of the University of Aveiro, a founding member and vice-president of the Observatory of China, and a senior consultant of Idtour, a tourism R&D spin-off company. She is also a member of the editorial, scientific and review boards of a few academic international peer-reviewed journals, as well as a member of the organizing and scientific committees of international tourism conferences. She has authored and co-authored several national and international papers and communications on tourism development, networks, tourism in China and Goa (India), gender and tourism, and internationalization of the tourism economy. She has also been taking part in several research projects in the tourism field, both as a member of the team and as a consultant.