Place-based displacement: Touristification and neighborhood change

Relying on extensive fieldwork, in this paper I give voice to long-term residents the city center of Barcelona, Spain, and explore how they feel about tourism-led transformation place which live. found that alteration causes breaking down emotional material attachments people have with area and, turn, process leads feelings expulsion mental distress. Therefore, discuss concept place-based displacement within context touristification, suggest housing market disruptions caused by tourism short-term rentals are insufficient understanding why communities resist oppose penetration their places. Drawing conceptualization as suggested gentrification scholars from contributions regarding psychology place, argues that, regardless whether spatial dislocation takes touristification disintegrates places belong rely for daily lives, therefore experience health well dispossession, anger, frustration.