Les bus touristiques, une technologie spatiale pour habiter les métropoles. Le cas de Los Angeles
Rather than considering tourist buses as a pejorative expression of mass tourism, this paper argues that it is a true spatial technology that helps individuals to manage the “otherness” of one tourist place. The purpose is to highlight the fact that individuals are not able, at the same level, to co...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Éditions Touristiques Européennes
2018-06-01
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| Series: | Mondes du Tourisme |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/tourisme/1671 |
| Summary: | Rather than considering tourist buses as a pejorative expression of mass tourism, this paper argues that it is a true spatial technology that helps individuals to manage the “otherness” of one tourist place. The purpose is to highlight the fact that individuals are not able, at the same level, to cope with space. Indeed, we insist on the idea that to “deal with” space is not obvious: we argue that to inhabit a place means to cope with some spatial stakes. To manage these epreuves, individual must mobilize skills, defined as the mastery of techniques. Then, we put forward the hypothesis that the use of tourist buses is not only a tourist practice as such, but a tool used by individuals when they feel they do not have sufficient mastery of techniques to discover by themselves a metropolis. This is crucial in Los Angeles, our case study, where the tourist space is spread over thirty kilometers, increasing the challenge of moving within the city, and where two main types of tourist buses coexist. |
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| ISSN: | 2109-5671 2492-7503 |