Le tourisme de mémoire au prisme du « big data ». Cartographier les circulations touristiques pour observer les pratiques mémorielles

Abstract

Battlefield tourism and memory tourism are the subject of public policies to build memorial destinations. Based on the analysis and the mapping of the practices and flows of visitors, but also their national origins and the meaning that they confer to their experiences, this article questions the tourist consistency of these memorial territorial constructions. The originality of our investigation relies on our sources and methods: the collection and the analysis of the digital footprints from social networks aimed at sharing experiences and pictures (TripAdvisor and Flickr), in order to identify the communities and the networks constituted by the practices, through their differentiations and at various scales.

Keywords

• Big data
• tourist flows
• tourist social networks
• digital footprints
• memory tourism
• battlefield tourism