Le tourisme en Chine est devenu, depuis la période des réformes à la fin des années 1970, et plus particulièrement depuis l’instauration de « semaines d’or » fériées (huangjinzhou : 黄金周 ; en 1999), un phénomène qu’il ...
This interview with Yves Winkin and Nathalie Zaccaï-Reyners focuses on notions of enchantment, imagination, games or effervescence. It questions both the complex links between spatialities, collective action and social interactions, but also ...
Seen through the experience of a couple on their honeymoon, the bankruptcy of the Thomas Cook company is structurally revealed as the all too successful success of a project aimed at training ...
By examining the Baltic coastline of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, a culturally and spatially highly standardized tourist area, this paper aims at analysing the relationship between norms and tourism practices. Spatial planning, like boundaries ...
This paper aims at understanding the mechanisms behind Berlin’s attractiveness for gay tourists. With a focus on urban events and their representations, the article investigates the role taken by sexual normativities in ...
This paper offers a discussion about the integration of the « techniques of the body » within a geography of action. The main idea is to define « skills » as the ...
Conventional statistical data rarely provide information on the different "present populations" that coexist in cities and in regions so as to be able to separate, for example, tourists from permanent residents. It ...
The article deals with the long-term evolution of social relationships in tourism contexts. Based on the socio-historical study of a seaside resort in North-East Brazil and the interactions between pioneering tourism entrepreneurs ...
Based on a considerable fieldwork experience in Mali, this paper aims to analyze the ethnologist's responsibilities towards various actors taking part in tourism encounters. From similarities between anthropologists and tourists, I intend ...
Equitation in the French tradition has been registered in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of UNESCO since 2011. This event questions the capacity for perpetuation of a ...
Jean-Loup Amselle, anthropologue atypique, volontiers critique à l’égard de sa propre discipline, continue de poursuivre son analyse des pathologies de l’Occident et de déconstruire les illusions qui nous portent à fuir un ...
This article presents a series of the findings from a combined visitor survey and GPS tracking study that was conducted in May and June 2013 in Paris. The mobility of the 129 ...
The touristique is a complex and globalized realm and its importance for economic and social development is well established. Although this phenomenon is clearly identified and settled in the social sphere, its ...
L’auteur approche le tourisme équitable et solidaire comme une forme d’action politique cristallisant les enjeux relatifs à l’engagement et à la politisation qui ont émergé dans le sillage de ce qu’il est ...
From April 2011, the 6th till July 2011, the 2nd an exhibition was presented at the Institut des Cultures d’Islam (Ici) in Paris. Named The Goutte d’Or, it showed photographs taken by ...
