1227 | 142 | A geographical analysis of the impacts of the touristification of nightlife in the neighborhood of Cais do Sodré, Lisbon | Jordi Nofre, Guilherme Costa, João Carlos Martins, Manuel Garcia-Ruiz
Over the last two decades, the expansion of the tourism-oriented nighttime leisure economy in a significant number of European cities can be seen simultaneously as both a result and a cause of the rapid and intense touristification of their respective central urban areas. In turn, what could be termed as the touristification of ‘the night’ has undoubtedly entailed the emergence of numerous significant negative spatial, social, economic, cultural, environmental, public health impacts, including the loss of local historical-architectural and/or cultural heritage. This article analyses how the touristification of ‘the night’ in the old harbour district of Cais do Sodré, located in the historic centre of Lisbon (Portugal), has triggered both a profound spatial transformation of the study area and a material, symbolic and heritage dispossession of the local community. The results shown in this article have been generated from observational fieldwork carried out between 2015 and 20122. Our paper concludes by suggesting that sustainable urban tourism development strategies should also contemplate the cataloguing and protection of the most representative tangible and intangible cultural heritage of the so-called ‘nocturnal city’.
Jordi Nofre, Guilherme Costa, João Carlos Martins, Manuel Garcia-Ruiz
LXNIGHTS Research Group, Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences, NOVA University of Lisbon
ID Abstract: 142