Gouvernance touristique des grandes stations et durabilité. Une lecture en termes de proximité

Abstract

The winter sports resorts are confronted today with many uncertainties as well structural as of the economic situation. Methods of their management constitute an important axis of reflexion in the majority of the ski resorts, especially the most important, our goal in this paper. Indeed, the Mountain law conferred on the communes the responsibility for the piloting of the stations ; a management which it assumes or delegates to private operators, via public services. These choices lead to forms varied of relations between private and public actors. This communication proposes to qualify the modes of relations between actors of the stations, by mobilizing the analytical framework of economy of the proximity. Thus, the articulations between proximities organisational and cognitive are very varied within the stations and can testify to conflict situations, between actors concerning spheres deprived like public. In order to raise blockings, the stake is to include/understand how the positions of the various groups were built, how the governance was thus established within the stations. Such a comprehension makes it possible to encourage forms of negotiation and to create the conditions of local scenes of discussion on becoming to it stations. The stations of the Arcs, of Val d’Isère in Savoy will illustrate the diversity of the methods of articulation between proximities organisational and cognitive, in varied territorial contexts.

Keywords

• gouvernance
• governance
• ski-resorts
• mountain law
• organisational proximity
• cognitive proximity