... to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Urban tourism Anti-tourism protests Critical discourse analysis Social urban movements Barcelona The anti-tourist social protest has gained prominence...

...Alba Viana-Lora; Marta Nel-lo-Andreu Purpose This paper aims to analyse Barcelona City Council's tourism policy documents to detect how, through the influence of research, different pathways are produced to achieve social impact. Design/methodology/approach Using the case study approach...

...Berezi Elorrieta; Aurélie Cerdan Schwitzguébel; Anna Torres-Delgado Purpose This study aims to examine the main factors and the related impacts that have caused a negative shift in the social perception of tourism among residents of Barcelona. Namely, it contextualises the recent evolution...

...Alexandra Georgescu Paquin; Aurélie Cerdan Schwitzguébel Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the tourist landscape as represented in Turisme de Barcelona’s YouTube tourism promotional videos, looking at the landscape’s tangible locations, symbolic and tourist assets...

.... It is clear that this requires a whole of government approach, and cities generally have a wide range of expertise and powers. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses conceptual viewpoint approach. Findings As the cases of Barcelona and Venice demonstrate, they are unable to manage the flows...

... and landscape. The study shows that room rate and customer satisfaction are both higher in urban landscapes than in coastal landscapes. Urban hotels present significant differences in their levels of customer satisfaction and room rates depending on their location in the city of Barcelona. However, coastal...

...Steven Richards; Lorraine Brown; Alessandra Dilettuso Purpose Media and academic attention on Airbnb focuses on user experiences, implications for traditional accommodation establishments and negative sociocultural impacts. The purpose of this paper is to explore the views of Barcelona residents...