Bianchi, Raoul V.McCabe, ScottCisneros Martínez, José DavidDomínguez Gómez, José Andrés2024-06-132024-06-132023-08Bianchi, 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.2023.1036400160-73831873-7722 (electrónico)https://hdl.handle.net/10272/23908Social 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.engAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Españahttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/Social tourismPolitical economyGovernance discourseIMSERSOjournal article10.1016/j.annals.2023.103640open access5312.90 Economía Sectorial: Turismo