Barcelona no tiene vacaciones: análisis del turismo urbano en Barcelona y su interacción con las medidas implementadas en el Raval

Abstract

Tourism is a global phenomenon studied and discussed among others by economists, geographers, urban planners, anthropologists, and sociologist, due to its considerable repercussions in the economy of a country or a city in its urban development or in its citizen’s life. The recent and extensive growth all over the world has turned it into an essential object of study, that requires new tools, that may improve, for example, the relationship between residents and tourists. The importance of the impact of urban tourism over a city like Barcelona is extremely interesting, particularly on its most stressed area: the city center concretely The Raval. This neighborhood suffered considerable modifications through time, specially over the last decades. analyzing impacts, sectorial measures and physical interventions. The historical and urban background of this neighborhood considered it as a privileged urban laboratory. Our study starts from a pre-Olympic Barcelona, where the work of renovation of Barcelona’s image is the base of what the city still promotes.