Listado de la etiqueta: Globalization

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1185 | 410 | Tourism in Spain and processes of globalization. Opportunities and risks for the tourist market. | Malgorzata Szymiczek

Spain is been considered one of the most important and attractive tourist destinations in the world. In the context of tourism development, Spain has become one of the country’s main sources of income, and the tourism sector contributes to the employment of many people: in 2019 tourism accounted for 12% of the national GDP and employment in this industry was 13%. However, the processes of globalization and the development of tourism have led to the problem of overtourism, and overcrowding in many Spanish cities. It is causing social, environmental and cultural damage. The second decade of the 20th century brought an increase in the number of tourists visiting this country, and this trend has not decreased despite the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of the speech is to present the perspectives and challenges related to the globalization of tourism and overtourism in Spain, and to present ways to sustainable tourism management in order to minimize its negative effects. Sustainable tourism management strategies and practices will be discussed, such as reducing the number of tourists, diversifying the tourist offer, protecting cultural and environmental heritage, and participating local communities in the life of the city. Examples of activities undertaken by Spanish cities for sustainable tourism management and statistical data to describe the phenomenon of mass tourism will also be presented. The research also presents individual tourist regions of Spain in order to redefine the concept of a Spanish tourist destination. _x000D_
Małgorzata Szymiczek – student at the Doctoral School of the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, at the Institute of Social and Economic Geography and Spatial Management. Graduated of Spanish philology with cultural studies and had a degree in tourism economy. She had a scholarship in the Erasmus+ program at the University of Cadiz, Spain. In her research, she focuses on the regionalization of tourism in Spain and the impact of tourism in country.

Malgorzata Szymiczek
University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland

 
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1174 | | Trade circulations and globalization of the poor: social and spatial transformations in African cities | Adrien Doron (1); Anne Bouhali (2); Sylvain Racaud (3)

African markets have become economically attractive, given population growth, urbanisation, the availability of a young labour force, a booming consumer market and high annual growth rates of national GDPs. Positive discourses on their strong economic potential accompany global flows that ultimately materialise in markets and other trading places. The presence of so-called informal markets is an essential landscape feature in the cities of the South, from megacities to the most modest rural villages. As part of networks of human, material and financial circulation, these places are a well-studied research object, from the socio-political issues at stake at the local level to the mechanisms of integration into transnational and globalised exchanges at the global level. The urban range of sales outlets also includes tried and tested devices: the supermarket, the shop and street sales. In recent years, it has been complemented by shopping malls. The panel questions how commercial traffic transforms and (re)signifies the urban spaces, including the most modest ones, that follow the trade routes? How do trade flows open up economic opportunities and consumption spaces for African populations ? Adressing the interactions between people, economic activities and urban environments, the panel aims to inform the effects of trade circulations on the production of space and on the daily lives of actors, whether as economic or consumption opportunities. The panel is based on a special issue of the journal «les Cahiers d’Outre-Mer», currently being published. It will be open in priority to the authors of the issue, but also to new contributors.The session will allow each participant to present their work before a final discussion.It will be conducted preferably in French, but English is also possible.

Adrien Doron (1); Anne Bouhali (2); Sylvain Racaud (3)
(1) Université Paris Cité, (2) Université de Picardie – Jules Verne, (3) Université Bordeaux Montaigne

 
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1144 | | The reindustrialization of Europe: a nightmare, a wish or a hope? | Xosé Somoza Medina (1)

Since the first decade of the 21st century, there have been different events that force us to rethink the future of globalization. The different climatic, economic, pandemic, energy and war crises show that the current system is unsustainable in the medium term. Today we can see the episode of the obstruction of the Suez Canal by the Ever Given container ship in March 2021 as a metaphor for the end of the cycle, for the passage of globalization towards a new world regionalization.
In this period, the industrial sovereignty of each region and country is debated from different points of view, calling into question the resilience of a fundamental sector for the progress of nations. Meanwhile, the advances in new technologies and the pressure of consumer society allow reshoring, the return of industrial production plants to developed countries, to be a growing and vital trend for the future of Europe or the United States.
In this context, the session proposes to investigate the reality of this process of «Reindustrialization of Europe». Reshoring, nearshoring, onshoring, backshoring, are terms that are opposed to offshoring, which characterized the expansion of globalization and the new international division of labour. The crises in global supply chains cause large corporations to rethink their development strategy and in these new plans factors arise that can determine a new life for European industrialized spaces, beyond their conversion into industrial heritage.
The session invites researchers to present communications that allow answering these or similar questions: Is it sustainable to continue with the deindustrialization of Europe? What should be the role of public institutions in this new dynamic? What examples exist in the different industrial branches that verify this trend?, What are the real dimensions of reshoring in Europe?, What reasons motivate the transfer of industries from third countries to the European continent?, What is the result on the local level of the implementation of new factories? Can the industrialization of a territory reverse the processes of demographic emptying? The session will be managed in English, although communications may be sent in any of the languages ​​of the congress. Presentations will preferably be in English

Xosé Somoza Medina (1)
(1) University of León (Spain)

 
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1144 | 200 | Reshoring in a de-globalized world. The role of traditional production factors | Somoza Medina, Xosé

The phenomenon of industrial relocation or «reshoring», as opposed to the widespread process of dislocation or «offshoring», typical of globalization, is a relatively scarcely extended business strategy, although the successive crises in global supply chains, geopolitical tensions or the effects of the pandemic have placed this possibility on the political agenda, with declarations and specific action programs that seek to promote industrial relocation in developed countries. The United States, Germany, Australia or the European Union itself have discussed the possibilities of increasing the weight of the industry to relaunch their economies._x000D_
The phenomenon of industrial relocation began to develop in the first decade of the 21st century, partly in response to increasing instability in global supply chains and rising energy costs. These two elements, far from showing a positive dynamic in recent years, have increased their worst effects on the world market, leading some authors to consider whether we are facing a new model of globalization._x000D_
This communication aims to analyze the main obstacles that can stop this type of initiative in industrial companies, analyzing the recent evolution of the factors of production on a global scale._x000D_

Somoza Medina, Xosé
University of León

 
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