Paddison, Brendan and Hall, Jenny ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5200-4308 (2025) Spatial justice in the tourist-historic city : reimagining policy-making and governance in times of crisis. In: Torabian, Pooneh and Albrecht, Julia N., (eds.) Justice in Tourism Destinations. Routledge

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Abstract

If concerns regarding the economic, social, cultural, and environmental impacts of tourism are to be addressed, tourism policy needs to be reimagined. This calls for research examining the impact policy-making and governance structures have on destinations and the inequalities this creates. It is within this context that this study draws upon Edward Soja’s geographical and spatial treatment of Lefebvre’s The Right to the City to explore how public policy and governance processes create spatial inequalities in the tourist-historic city of York, UK. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with leading policy-makers and destination stakeholders to identify how spatial injustice manifests through governance and policy processes during a period of crisis. Our study identified how tourism in York is appropriated by corporate interests leaving a deficit concerning the economic, environmental, and social impacts of tourism. This is manifest through a neoliberal policy agenda, unplanned growth, and workplace inequalities. A novel approach that focused on the experiences of policy-makers was developed to investigate how tourism policy is economically and politically marginalised, and the impact this has on York’s social ecology.

Item Type:	Book Section
Status:	Published
School/Department:	York Business School
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/11901

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