Progress in French Tourism Geographies: Inhabiting Touristic Worlds (Geographies of Tourism and Global Change)

✍ Scribed by Mathis Stock (editor)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 249
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides an overview of the recent progress in Francophone tourism geography. It focuses on the theoretical advances in social and cultural geography, whereby the symbolic dimensions of tourism and the creation of tourism worlds are key. It puts forward the tourist conceived as mobile, situated, skilled, reflexive inhabitant of places, which gives all its meaning to the expression “inhabiting touristic worlds”. More specifically, this book addresses numerous rarely addressed issues such as the geo-history of tourism, the material cultures of tourists, the digitality and disconnection from digital technologies in National Parcs or the use of knowledge of tourists in metropolises. It gives insights in the specific Francophone approaches such as inhabiting, the urbanity of tourist resorts and the notion of territory in tourist studies. Finally, it provides an overview of the urban dimensions of tourism, place-making in the form of heritage, oasis tourism, sports tourism, production of space in Mexican resorts. As such, the book provides a key read for academics, students and professionals in tourism studies and tourism geography in search for alternative approaches.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction: A ‘French Touch’ to Tourism Geography
1.1 Introduction
1.2 “Touristic Worlds”
1.3 Geohistorical Approaches to Tourism
1.4 To Which Extent Tourism could change Theoretical Geography?
1.5 Problematizing Tourism with a ‘French Touch’
References
Chapter 2: Inhabiting as Key Concept for a Theory of Tourism?
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Issues of Traditional Theories of Dwelling from the Point of View of Mobility and Multi-locality
2.3 Addressing Different Dimensions of Inhabiting
2.4 Tourist Practices as “Mode of Inhabiting” and the Tourist as Temporary Inhabitant
2.4.1 Playful Inhabiting and Quest for Excitement
2.4.2 “Inhabiting Touristically”: Tourists as Temporary Inhabitants of Places
2.5 Towards the Study of “Dwelling Styles”
2.6 The Notion of Inhabiting as an Answer to Current Issues?
2.7 Conclusion
References
Chapter 3: Tourists and the City: Knowledge as a Challenge for Inhabiting
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The “Touristic Urbanness” of Cities
3.3 Inhabiting the City as a Tourist
3.4 Conclusion: Knowledge as a Capital
References
Chapter 4: Help or Hindrance? Media Uses and Discourses on Media in Outdoor Sport Tourism
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Theoretical Framework: Media and Space as Practices
4.2.1 Media as Practices
4.2.2 Outdoor Sport Tourism as Geographical Play
4.3 Empirical Insights: Methods and Outline
4.4 Fake, Virtual, Passive: The Roots of Anti-media Discourses
4.5 Media Practices: Sharing Spatialities, Sustaining Communities
4.5.1 Mythologies of Places, Mythologies of the Self
4.5.2 Encoding Terrains into Playgrounds
4.5.3 Communicating and Coordinating Spatialities
4.6 Conclusion
References
Chapter 5: Challenging Connectivity During Nature-Based Tourism: (Dis)connection at Banff National Park
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Nature’s Healing Power in a Connected World
5.3 Assisted Practices and Performance
5.4 Methods and Fieldwork
5.5 Being Connected to the Wilderness
5.6 Playing with the Wilderness
5.7 Disconnecting from It All
5.8 Conclusion
References
Chapter 6: Tourism Territory/Territoire(s) Touristique(s): When Mobility Challenges the Concept
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Territory
6.3 Territoire(s)
6.4 Tourism Territories/Territoire(s) Touristique(s)
6.5 Concluding Remarks
References
Chapter 7: Living Treasures, Common Goods and Tourism Development of the Agdal of Yagour, Zat Valley, High Western Atlas, Morocco
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Agdal of Yagour: A Changing Territory with Specific Heritage Resources
7.3 Heritagization and Tourism Development Among Socio-economic Changes
7.3.1 Changes Within a Space of High Cultural Value
7.3.2 Heritagization and Touristification as Two Slow Processes of Territorial Revitalisation and Innovation
7.4 A Territorial Project that Demands Territorial Mediation
7.4.1 The System of Actors: Convergences or Divergences?
7.4.2 Could Committed Tourism and Common Heritage Engage the Mediation Among Actors?
7.5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 8: From Tourist Gaze to Tourist Engagement, A Relational Approach to Heritage
8.1 Introduction
8.2 A Relational Approach to Heritage from a Tourism Perspective
8.2.1 Moving Beyond the Disconnected Approach to Heritage and Tourists
8.2.2 A Relational Approach to Heritage via Tourism
8.2.3 Motives for Attachment
8.3 What Is the Nature of Tourist “Concernment” in Heritage
8.3.1 “Concernment” and Its Motives
8.3.2 Is Transnational Public Opinion Informed by Tourism?
8.3.3 Venice and the Nature of Tourist “Concernment”
8.4 From “Concernment” to Engagement
8.4.1 A Multiplicity of Tourist Engagement Mechanisms
8.4.2 Financial Contributions to Safeguarding Heritage
8.4.3 Transnational Patronage
8.4.4 Voluntary Engagement of Tourists In Situ
8.5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 9: Discussing Overtourism: Recognizing Residents’ Needs in Tourism Management in Ticino, Switzerland
9.1 Introduction
9.2 A Brief History of Ticino
9.3 The Keynesian Paradigm of the 1980s and Response to Overtourism
9.3.1 The Keynesian Paradigm of the 1980s
9.3.2 Keynesian Response to Overtourism
9.4 The Neoliberal Paradigm of the 2010s and Response to Overtourism
9.4.1 The Neoliberal Paradigm
9.4.2 Neoliberal Response to Overtourism
9.5 What Major Differences?
9.6 Discussing Overtourism
References
Chapter 10: Rematerializing Tourism Studies: Toward a Political Economy of Tourist Space
10.1 Introduction
10.2 The Materialist Approach to Tourism in Light of Certain Contemporary Debates
10.2.1 Materialism and Tourism Research: A Missed Opportunity?
10.2.2 New Approaches Thanks to the Cultural Turn
10.2.3 New Interpretations of Power
10.2.4 New Focal Points, New Blind Spots
10.3 For a Revival of the Materialistic Approach to Tourism. What Theoretical Perspectives?
10.3.1 Questioning the Spatial Dimension of Tourism Based on Conflicts
10.3.2 The Tourist Space and Its Contradictions: The Theoretical Contribution of Henri Lefebvre
10.3.3 Towards a Political Economy of Tourist Space
References
Chapter 11: Tourism as Urban Phenomenon and the Crux of “Urban Tourism”
11.1 Introduction
11.2 The Urban Foundations of Tourism
11.3 Tourist Places as Urban Places
11.3.1 The Urbaness of Tourist Resorts
11.3.2 Towards an Analytical Framework for the Urban Dimensions of Tourist Places
11.4 Tourism-Induced Processes of Urbanization
11.4.1 The Emergence of Resorts as Urbanization Process
11.4.2 Increased Urbanisation of Tourist Resorts: An Emergence of Centrality?
11.4.3 Touristification and Urbanization of Cities
11.5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 12: Rethinking Resort Development Through the Concept of “Touristic Capital” of Place
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Resort Development: A Critical Review of Three Approaches
12.2.1 Strengths and Limitations of the Life-Cycle Approach
12.2.2 The Restructuring Approach
12.2.3 The Transformation of Place Qualities
12.2.4 Conclusion
12.3 Towards a Conceptualisation of “Touristic Capital” of Resorts in a Global Tourism Field
12.3.1 Capital as a Concept Developed in Several Disciplines
12.3.2 The Concept of a Touristic Capital of Resorts in a Global Tourism Field
12.4 Implications of the Concept
12.5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 13: The Contemporary Expansion of Tourism as Third “Tourism Revolution”?
13.1 Introduction
13.2 More Tourists Than Ever in an Increasingly Tourist-Oriented World
13.2.1 The Tourism Explosion in Developed Countries
13.2.2 Access to Tourism for Non-Western Societies
13.2.3 The Difficult Assessment of the Increase in Visitor Economies on a Global Scale
13.3 The Shift from Mass Tourism to Individualized Mass Tourism
13.3.1 Diversification of Activities
13.3.2 Diversification of Tourist Practices Supported by the Diffusion of the Techno-Digital System
13.3.3 The Evolution of Intermediation
13.3.4 The Spatial Concentration of Tourists
13.4 Homogenization and Diversification of Tourism Practices
13.4.1 Homogenization
13.4.2 Differentiation
13.5 Conclusion
References
Correction to: Tourists and the City: Knowledge as a Challenge for Inhabiting
Correction to: Chapter 3 in: M. Stock (ed.), Progress in French Tourism Geographies, Geographies of Tourism and Global Change, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52136-3_3