Abstract
The debate on tourism in cities, both academically and in practice, has for a long time taken place in relative isolation from urban studies. Tourism is mostly addressed as an external agent and economic force which puts pressure on cities rather than as an interdependent part of city systems. The recent debate on city touristification and excessive dependence on the visitor economy, as well as the associated processes of exclusion, and displacement of local city users, serves to highlight how tourism is an integral part of urban developments. A wider urban perspective is needed to understand the processes underlying the tourism phenomena and more interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives are required to analyse the urban (tourism) phenomenon. The current paper seeks to contribute to such a perspective through a discussion of the literature on urban and tourism studies, and related fields such as gentrification, mobilities and critical placemaking. Based on this, initial ideas are provided regarding a more integral perspective to tourism and urban development and the ways in which such a perspective can further the discussion on how to deal with urban tourism in an increasingly complex world.
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