Contemporary trends in cultural heritage tourism

• To provide the ability to analyze and debate the acceptance of sustainable tourism, critically and systematically review and report on relevant bibliography in the selected field;
• To update students, through open discussion and presentation among peers, with the contemporary research trends in the field of the social and performative construction of cultural landscapes
• To train students to critically analyze, understand and use concepts, new information and ideas employed in the cultural tourism context
• To consolidate the holistic approach to research on tourist places

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• Seminars, open discussions in different fields of knowledge involved in culture and society, focusing on contemporary research perspectives and trends in the field of cultural heritage tourism.
• In particular: urban populations, citizenship, place transformations, power, negotiation, mobilities, colonialism, gender aspects, postfordism

• Student’s capacity to pursue independent bibliographical research within broad and complex range of topics inherent to heritage studies
• Publication and communication potential, learning interactive –scientific discussion
• Successful written and public presentation of research proposals focusing on critical presentation of bibliographical background related to the contemporary research trends

Selected literature may differ each year and will be given accordingly to the selected thematic field.

• Active participation in classroom • Written report

Antonio Paolo Russo is a Full Professor of Economics at the University Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain, where he also serves as the Research Director of the Science and Technology Park of Tourism of Tarragona. His research interests encompass education, economics, tourism geography, and urban planning culture. He has authored numerous publications in international academic journals and collections and is actively involved in national and European projects related to these fields. Since 2003, he has been residing in Barcelona, engaging as a social and political activist on issues concerning global citizenship and urban democracy.

Selected Publications:
• Arias Sans, A., Quaglieri-Domínguez, A., & Russo, A.P. (2022). Home-sharing as transnational moorings: Insights from Barcelona. City. DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.2018859
• Lopez-Gay, A., Cocola-Gant, A., & Russo, A.P. (2021). Urban Tourism and Population Change: Gentrification in the Age of Mobilities. Population Space and Place, 27(1): e2380. DOI: 10.1002/psp.2380.
• Salerno, G., & Russo, A.P. (2020). Venice as a short-term city. Between global trends and local lock-ins. Journal of Sustainable Tourism. DOI: 10.1080/09669582.2020.1860068
• Russo, A.P., van der Duim, R., & Duncan, T. (2020). Tourism and the Corona crises: Some ATLAS reflections. ATLAS Tourism and Leisure Review, Vol. 2020-2. ISSN 2468-6719.
• Russo, A.P., & Bertelle, S. (2019). Mobilising Memoryscapes. Tourist Entanglements at two Catalan Civil War Sites. Journal of Heritage Tourism. DOI: 10.1080/1743873X.2019.1632868
• Brandajs, F., & Russo, A.P. (2019). Whose is that Square? Cruise tourists’ mobilities and negotiation for public space in Barcelona. Applied Mobilities. DOI: 10.1080/23800127.2019.1576257
• Russo, A.P. (2002). The ‘vicious circle’ of tourism development in heritage cities. Annals of Tourism Research, 29(1): 165-182.
• Russo, A.P., & Arias Sans, A. (2009). Student communities and landscapes of creativity: how Venice – ‘the world's most touristed city’ – is changing. European Urban and Regional Studies, 16(2): 175-189.
• Russo, A.P., & Romagosa, F. (2010). The Network of Spanish Jewries: in praise of connecting and sharing heritage. Journal of Heritage Tourism, 5(2): 141-156.
• Russo, A.P., & Segre, G. (2009). Destinations and property regimes: an exploration. Annals of Tourism Research, 36(4): 587-606.
• Van der Borg, J., Costa, P., & Gotti, G. (1996). Tourism in European heritage cities. Annals of Tourism Research, 23(2): 306-321.

Russo, A.P. and Richards, G. (Eds) (2016). Reinventing the local in tourism. Channel View Publications, Clevedon. ISBN: 978-1-84541-569-3

Russo, A.P. and J. van der Borg (2010). An urban policy framework for culture-oriented economic development: lessons from the Netherlands. Urban Geography 31(5): 668-690.

Russo, A.P. and A. Arias Sans (2009). Student communities and landscapes of creativity: how Venice – ‘the world's most touristed city’ – is changing. European Urban and Regional Studies 16(2): 175-189.