RT Journal Article
T1 Contested discourses in social tourism: A relational political economy perspective.
A1 Bianchi, Raoul V.
A1 McCabe, Scott
A1 Cisneros-Martínez, José David
A1 Domínguez-Gómez, J. Andrés
K1 Turismo social
K1 Economía
AB Social tourism initiatives often have economic as well as objectives, particularly national schemes such as the Spanish IMSERSO programme, designed to stimulate off-season tourism in mass coastal tourism destinations. Yet, there is little evidence of how such schemes responded to crises or that explores the effects on the tourism industry actors responsible for programme delivery. This article applies a relational political economy approach to assess the contested discourses surrounding the governance of the scheme. We examine the evolution of the IMSERSO programme longitudinally following the global financial crisis and up until the COVID-19 pandemic to assess the relational dynamics at play social tourism governance on destination stakeholders, outlining implications for social tourism policies internationally.
PB Elsevier
YR 2023
FD 2023-08-10
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/30886
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/30886
LA eng
NO Bianchi, R. V., McCabe, S., Cisneros-Martínez, J. D., & Domínguez Gómez, J. A. (2023). Contested discourses in social tourism: A relational political economy perspective. Annals of Tourism Research, 102, 103640.
NO This work was supported by the British Academy [SRG18R1 \180504]
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 21 ene 2026