Descripción del proyecto
El futuro de los espacios turísticos urbanos y la inclusión de la movilidad adaptada a las personas mayores
Las ciudades turísticas afrontarán múltiples retos en los próximos años: la urbanización, el envejecimiento de la población y la presión continua de la movilidad turística sobre la sostenibilidad y la inclusión. La creciente presencia de adultos mayores en las comunidades turísticas y residentes empuja a las agendas urbanas a dar cabida a personas de distintas edades y necesidades de movilidad, especialmente en los espacios turísticos. El proyecto ENTOURAGE, financiado con fondos europeos, tiene como objetivo comprender y abordar los efectos negativos de los extremos turísticos —el sobreturismo y el infraturismo— buscando un «turismo adaptado a las personas mayores». Para promover un enfoque integrado de los retos urbanos, el proyecto emplea el marco de Ciudad Amigable con las Personas Mayores, que sostiene que centrarse en las necesidades sociales de las personas mayores mejorará la calidad de las ciudades para todos.
Objetivo
By 2050, two-thirds of the population will live in cities, with people over 65 as the fastest growing cohort. In the EU, their share is projected to increase from 17.5% in 2010 to 29.5% in 2060. At the same time, intense movements of people, vehicles, capital and information challenge the sustainability and social inclusion in cities as they are. Such developments rapidly alter the requirements of currently dominant mobility systems, to cater for the needs of all people visiting or residing in the city. Recent urban transformations are producing new mobility clashes and encounters, which are felt by some groups more than others. Tourist cities are places where such clashes may be most intense and manifold, as they act as visitor hub and home to diverse resident and working populations. Population ageing requires a new understanding of the experiences of urban tourism spaces, at a time when the instability of mainstream city tourism has come to surface.
ENTOURAGE unites mobilities, ageing and tourism studies to understand and tackle the negative effects of ‘overtourism’, and instead proposes an ‘age-friendly tourism’. It initiates a data-driven, participatory study with the aim to examine urban mobility transformations in European tourist cities and their effects on the social inclusion of older visitors and residents. The project takes place in the framework of the Age-friendly City, which argues that a focus on the societal needs of older people improves the quality of cities for all. Its interdisciplinary interface promises an innovative combination of qualitative and mobile methods, to capture the age-inclusiveness of urban tourist spaces. It mobilises the knowledge, skills and networks of expert institutions in tourism, urban ageing and smart urban analytics to propose an original combination of resident and visitor perspectives, creating new knowledge about their negotiations of urban quality and conflict.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinador
43003 Tarragona
España