Tourisme sportif et construction de l’altérité dans les espaces de pratique : le canoë en France et en Zambie

Historically, canoeing is based on the principle of free circulation on water streams and on a tourism-oriented overview of nature. In France, during post-war years, rivers were closed to navigation, which led canoeists to search for new spaces to practice. Wild waters sites were identified in Afric...

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Main Author: Antoine Marsac
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Éditions Touristiques Européennes 2013-06-01
Series:Mondes du Tourisme
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/tourisme/190
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description Historically, canoeing is based on the principle of free circulation on water streams and on a tourism-oriented overview of nature. In France, during post-war years, rivers were closed to navigation, which led canoeists to search for new spaces to practice. Wild waters sites were identified in African countries during the 1950s. A “natural” logic, based on an unstable and wild environment, has been incorporated under tourist designs of nature. These take into account the relationship with the land and the relation to the Other. We should understand how emerged, from the point of view of Western tourists, their relationship to the Tonga people of Zambia, some of them being mobilized as guides on the Zambezi River. Interviews were analyzed, using an in situ investigation. This activity is designed to explore the nature and explore high places while travelling in Zambia; the Zambezi River Gorge is a world-renowned site for this type of activity. In what context did leisure canoe spread from Europe to Africa? We should show how the otherness between practitioners relationships are constructed and how they change the guides norms.
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spellingShingle Antoine Marsac
Tourisme sportif et construction de l’altérité dans les espaces de pratique : le canoë en France et en Zambie
Mondes du Tourisme
canoeing
Zambia
leisure canoe
tourist designs of nature
ethnology
relation to the other
title Tourisme sportif et construction de l’altérité dans les espaces de pratique : le canoë en France et en Zambie
title_full Tourisme sportif et construction de l’altérité dans les espaces de pratique : le canoë en France et en Zambie
title_fullStr Tourisme sportif et construction de l’altérité dans les espaces de pratique : le canoë en France et en Zambie
title_full_unstemmed Tourisme sportif et construction de l’altérité dans les espaces de pratique : le canoë en France et en Zambie
title_short Tourisme sportif et construction de l’altérité dans les espaces de pratique : le canoë en France et en Zambie
title_sort tourisme sportif et construction de l alterite dans les espaces de pratique le canoe en france et en zambie
topic canoeing
Zambia
leisure canoe
tourist designs of nature
ethnology
relation to the other
url http://journals.openedition.org/tourisme/190
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