Abstract
Technical, net-worked infrastructure systems are the basis for modern cities and essential for the functioning and development of tourism. However, increasing tourist numbers can outrun system capacities and lead to their failure or breakdown. In this context, cruise tourism is of high relevance as this tourism sector creates high pressure on these systems by the temporal and spatial concentration of cruise tourists in a city. City governments address technical, net-worked infrastructure systems in their strategies to cope with tourism effects. In this process, they ascribe different levels of criticality to these systems, whereby some systems are dealt to be more relevant than others. Using the case study of Dubrovnik in Croatia and a qualitative research design with semi-structured expert interviews, this paper examines how criticality is ascribed in the context of cruise tourism and the impact on introduced measures to cope with tourism effects.
Presenters
Allegra Celine BaumannResearch Assistant, Research Training Group KRITIS (Critical Infrastructures), TU Darmstadt, Germany
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Critical Issues in Tourism and Leisure Studies
KEYWORDS
Cruise Tourism, Criticality, Critical Infrastructures, Dubrovnik
