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Visiting cities is an ever-growing tourism activity in Europe.Also thanks to the enlargement of the European Community, urban tourism flows are expanding at a faster rate than tourism in general (ETC, 2008). Traditional cities are cities that were not created for tourism development and where tourism has established itself within the changing economic, social and cultural environment.Tourism activities interact with other urban functions as part of a system of overlapping flows and relationships (Laws, 1993). Besides, cities are places in motion, nodes of dynamic networks of different physical and virtual mobilities (tourists, residents, businesses, capitals, investments, culture, knowledge, etc.) that constantly reshape the urban space, the organisation of tourism and non-tourism practices and the city image and brand.
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Minghetti, V., Montaguti, F. (2010). Cities to Play: Outlining Competitive Profiles for European Cities. In: Mazanec, J.A., Wöber, K.W. (eds) Analysing International City Tourism. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-09416-7_10
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