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