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, José Andrés
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
SN 0160-7383
SN 1873-7722 (electrónico)
YR 2023
FD 2023-08
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/23908
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/23908
LA eng
NO Bianchi, R. V., McCabe, S., Cisneros-Martínez, J. D., & Andrés Domínguez-Gómez, J. (2023). Contested discourses in social tourism: A relational political economy perspective. In Annals of Tourism Research (Vol. 102, p. 103640). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2023.103640
NO This work was supported by the British Academy [SRG18R1 \180504]
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 14 jul 2026