Crise du tourisme et résistances des vacances. Valeurs et pratiques des mobilités de loisirs en période de pandémie
According to the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), the pandemic has reduced international tourism by 70% by 2020. In the media, the cessation of international mobility is translated into a discourse on “the end of tourism” or “the death of travel”. However, in the summer of 2020, most French terri...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Éditions Touristiques Européennes
2021-12-01
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| Series: | Mondes du Tourisme |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/tourisme/3899 |
| Summary: | According to the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), the pandemic has reduced international tourism by 70% by 2020. In the media, the cessation of international mobility is translated into a discourse on “the end of tourism” or “the death of travel”. However, in the summer of 2020, most French territories will experience a summer season that is as busy or even busier than in previous years. How can this discrepancy be explained? Based on a critical analysis of statistical tourism indicators, field observations and the study of comments posted on tourism booking platforms, this article proposes the following hypothesis: the pandemic reveals the fragility of the international tourism industry, and its hold on the norms, values and imaginaries of the elsewhere and of “other” time. Escaping the tourism industry and its indicators, popular vacation practices have resisted rather than been radically transformed. Above all, they have become visible and valued. In this context, the notion of “differential valence” allows us to understand the current inversion of values respectively associated with international tourism and popular vacations. |
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| ISSN: | 2109-5671 2492-7503 |