La ciudad fingida. Imágenes y promoción del turismo en Barcelona. Perspectiva histórica y cuestiones del presente

Abstract

Since the year 2000, Barcelona has experimented a significant grow of tourism. Now, tourism has an structuring role in the city: the evolution is highly linked to tourism, and that it will keep growing. In the last years, among the boom of tourism, the sector has been criticized and rejected by some citizen, that identify tourism as direct responsible for some lacks and city problems. The nuisance caused by some public spaces massification, the trivialization of some symbols related to the identity of the city o the specification of commerce around the tourism icons are issues that concern people and they must be attended. The intense tourism activity in Barcelona demands restatements from a territorial, economical and sociocultural point of view.