🔸Starting with the paper entitled “Tourism Accommodation and Housing Affordability: Insight From a Geo-spatial Analysis in Athens and Thessaloniki, Greece” looks at short-term and residential rental market separately, explores and understands their connection through spatial and non-spatial analysis.
Some of the key findings indicate that:
The paper can be accessed through ResearchGate, and by clicking here.
The second paper of our project for 2026, is entitled “The evolving modalities of gentrification in Athens vis-à-vis Greece’s shifting growth models: Insight from a novel multi-scalar approach”.
The paper uses a multi-scalar approach to examine gentrification in Athens within Greece’s changing growth models. It identifies two waves of gentrification up to the 2004 Olympic Games that reshaped the inner city during a period of urbanisation-led growth, followed by two later waves in which gentrification expanded outward and became closely linked to touristification.
Its main findings indicate that gentrification evolved from exploiting inner-city rent gaps to restructuring property markets for tourism and financialisation, as a result of Greece’s shift rom a construction-driven to a tourism-dependent economy.
The full paper can be accessed by clicking εδώ
Finally, at the book entitled “Theoretical and Applied Approaches to Economic Geography and Spatial Planning”, our researchers have contributed to its composition, through the chapter entitled “Examining Touristification in the EU Regions through a Composite Indicator Methodology”. In this chapter our team introduces the Touristification Index (TAIDD CI): an index that measures the territorial and social pressures from tourism’s supply and demand, as well as regions’ dependence on tourism in terms of employment and output.
By applying this index to all EU NUTS2 regions, from 2009 to 2022, this chapter brings some interesting key findings, including that:
The chapter can be accessed by clicking εδώ