Introduction: Tourism and the night: towards a broader understanding of nocturnal city destinations  1. Decoding middle-class protest against low-cost nocturnal tourism in Madrid  2. Gentrification, tourism and the night-time economy in Budapest's district VII – the role of regulation in a post-socialist context  3. Commuting and the urban night: nocturnal mobilities in tourism and hospitality work  4. Strangers in the night: nightlife studies and new urban tourism  5. Nocturnal ritual activities in tourist development of pilgrimage cities  6. Residents versus visitors at light festivals in cities: the case of Barcelona  7. Fairy tale tourism: the architectural projection mapping of magically real and irreal festival lightscapes

Andrew Smith is a Reader in the School of Architecture and Cities at the University of Westminster, UK. He is the author of Events in the City: Using Public Spaces as Event Venues (2016) and Events and Urban Regeneration: The Strategic Use of Events to Revitalise Cities (2012).

Adam Eldridge is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Westminster, UK. He is the co-author of Planning the Night Time City (2009) and co-editor of Exploring Nightlife: Space, Society and Governance (2018). His research examines the night as a source of debates about public space, leisure, and identity.