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Tourism, Urbanization and Spatial Reorganization: Some Reflections on Tourism Development in Goa, India

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Modern tourism is all-encompassing and its intricate bearings are manifested in invariably every spatial component and more particularly the physical space. The place consumption heralds many irreversible changes to the spatial arrangements and economic landscape, the more striking being urbanization. The impacts of tourism are manifested in varied forms. In the develo** world especially, it brings substantive socio-economic and cultural transformations coupled with spatial reorganization. This becomes inevitable with great chunks of tourism moving to smaller towns and non-urban areas. However, this connect is scantly understood and explained, especially from the spatial perspective and that forms the rationale and premise for this chapter. The analysis provides to delineate two major trajectories: first, tourism acts as a key catalyst that transforms a primordial rural and/or peripheral landscape into urban; and second, it complements and accelerates the growth and expansion of the cities and towns. Examination of tourism development along the coastal areas of Goa adequately explains the centrality of tourism in the urbanization process, and its role in the emergence of new urban centers as well as the expansion and spread of the cities and towns. However, empirical testing could earn more focused understanding and perspectives on the complementarities of tourism and urbanization.

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Sutheeshna, B.S. (2021). Tourism, Urbanization and Spatial Reorganization: Some Reflections on Tourism Development in Goa, India. In: Jaglan, M.S., Rajeshwari (eds) Reflections on 21st Century Human Habitats in India. Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3100-9_9

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