Tourism off the beaten track Symposium – May 21st to 23rd 2014, Paris

Le Collectif RENOIR sera présent au colloque de l’Association AsTRES : “Tourisme off the beaten track: back, interstice territories”. Il y donnera une communication intitulée “La construction d’une ressource touristique territoriale : la Réserve Internationale de Ciel Etoilé du pic du Midi de Bigorre”.

Le programme complet du colloque (pdf) est disponible au téléchargement.

“The growth of tourist practices and products defined as alternatives has contributed to the emergence of new tourist forms. Over the past decades, mass tourism has been largely questioned by a more diverse, fragmented and individualized offer. Tourism is being definitely impacted by metropolization, globalization and the hybridization of tastes. The focus is now on the everyday, the fact of life, on contextualizing the holiday stay and on social interactions.

These new practices which are shaping new relations between centres and peripheries are known as sub/peri-urban tourism, creative tourism, participative tourism, slow tourism, tourism of the everyday.

The conference  will investigate the tourist practices and branches emerging off the beaten track and generating new tourist territories derived from backstage, interstice and peripheral areas.

Far from opposing mainstream tourism to a more selective form of tourism, the aim of the conference is to apprehend how the new tourist territories, practices, products and temporalities are building up from interstitial spaces and backstage practices.

The emergence and dissemination of tourist innovations born from the practices of « pioneering » tourists and creative players or from the introduction of alternative products will also be addressed.”

Les membres de RENOIR travaillent donc à la préparation de ce colloque…