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In the current context of competition, consolidated destinations need to develop diversification strategies with the objective of maintaining their market share and increasing the benefits of tourism. This research aims to deepen the study of this differentiated form of tourism since its definition, components and operations need to be reviewed in order to understand its scope. In addition, its potential strategic value will be analysed from different perspectives such as destination image and economic benefit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Is it possible for over and under tourism to occur simultaneously at the same destination? This research will show that this paradoxical situation is possible. To illustrate this, the archipelago of Nueva Tabarca, close to the mature tourist area of the Costa Blanca in Alicante (Spain), is studied. In spite of its rich heritage and evident nonseasonal potential, this island enclave presents an uneven tourist use in time and space. This allows us to speak of massiveness and saturation, typical of over-tourism, while at the same time a part of the island space of undoubted quality remains underused throughout the year, and that there is also a calmer tourist consumption, which would allow us to speak of sub-tourism. To demonstrate this, a methodology based on participant observation and semi-structured interviews with social and tourist agents will be used, which will make it possible to contrast the data offered by indirect sources. Far from being a singular case, this study offers an analysis that can be extrapolated to other places and microdestinations, which are visited massively due to their proximity to consolidated tourist areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El objeto de esta comunicación es analizar una de las orientaciones de la llamada economía colaborativa que, aunque menos conocida que otras referidas a la gestión del transporte o el alojamiento, ofrece un panorama igualmente interesante y no exento de polémica. Planteamos una aproximación al estudio de los servicios de guiado turístico, realizados a través de plataformas Online por personas que ofrecen esta posibilidad –inicialmente- de forma altruista o voluntarista, como intercambio cultural entre iguales, y cuyo desarrollo y evolución en los últimos años suscita debate entre los profesionales afectados. Para ello, se propone una primera parte centrada en las bases conceptuales y operativas de este tipo de servicios y su evolución en relación con la economía colaborativa, a la que seguirá el estudio concreto de la oferta de recorridos guiados “gratuitos" en Madrid, como caso de estudio que permite mostrar la complejidad de relaciones y de agentes implicados en el ámbito del turismo urbano. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Planning tourist places use the same development strategies as urban peripheries. Their initial definition and territorial descriptions present clear parallelisms. However, it does not seem appropiate that the first industry of the country must follow a plan according with a simple urban normative, that does not recognize its peculiarities. A planning more centred in environmental qualities, could be the key to keep competitiveness and dynamism of litoral places. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Working Group on Geography of Tourism, Leisure and Recreation of the Spanish Geographical Association organizes biennial Colloquia since its inception in 1989, more than thirty years ago. Its current Permanent Commission ends its mandate in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, after a tumultuous summer for mass tourism businesses. This monographic volume reflects the academic debate on the sustainability of tourism, in the transition from overtourist to undertourism, from overtourism to undertourism. It has been structured in two main axes. The first refers to tourism sustainability: theoretical framework, diagnostic indicators, planning and management proposals. The second analyzes the spatio-temporal models of overtourism and undertourism. Within the first axis, hot topics are reflected, such as: Spain's dying interior areas, coastal tourist destinations, territorial inequalities, landscape as a strategy for inland and nature tourism, tourist pressures in urban centers, urban planning as an instrument for organizing tourist activity, theme parks, evaluation of tourism sustainability, land stewardship, consequences of oversaturation in socioenvironmental aspects, public responses in scenarios of overtourism, megaprojects... Multiple problems are addressed from the second axis as well: job insecurity, citizen participation as an essential element in the social dimension of the Smart Destination, smart rural tourism, the future of the sun and sand resorts, gentrification processes and tourism, cultural tourism, tourist use of housing in rural areas, charter companies in Spain, inland tourism, case study analysis that can be extrapolated to other places such as the commercial gentrification of public space, such as terraces of bars and restaurants in historical centers, LGTB tourism as a new source of tourism development, the relationship between frequentation and the evolution of the beach surface extent, urban overtourism and demographic changes, new tourist dynamics on the Camino de Santiago, reflections on living environments and tourist destinations, tourism and inequality or analysis of more global characteristics such as the analysis and evolution of changes in the use of coastal land in Spain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]