We also conclude that the benefits of tourist-led gentrification are relevant for the gentrification analysis because they show the contradictions that the remaining residential community experience as tourist-led gentrification unfolds. Our interviewees testified that overtourism in Alfama generates perceptions that range from a generalized acceptance for the benefits that an improved safety associated to an increased street-life and a cleaner neighborhood generate, and on the other hand the grievance for the loss of a pre-existing community. We used Leximancer software to create categories of analysis depending on frequency of mentions and the way themes are related. Our study involves a questionnaire to old long-term residents and content analysis of their responses.

This study aims to understand how local people perceive tourism in Alfama, one of the most unique and tourist-oriented neighborhoods of Lisbon. Neighborhoods’ traditional residents also see their routine completely changed due to the different habits of tourists, and displacement rates rise. Yet Sherenna seems more involved in the neighborhoods in which she conducts business than many landlords. Overtourism affects picturesque places, and these areas end up losing their authenticity, submitting themselves to the consumption needs of tourists. Landlords in poor neighborhoods often profit from communities that they themselves have little to do with. Evicted discusses the unfathomable cost of education, minimum wage, and extreme cost of housing. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City does an incredible job of capturing the lives of people facing extreme poverty in Milwaukee. A landlord convinced the Civil Liberties Union that the practice was unfair, because it. This connects to Evicted because the less fortunate struggle to obtain their own property. Tourism makes destinations adapt to receive those who visit them, with a great impact among traditional residents. T here used to be a moratorium on eviction at Christmas in America.

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