Tourisme culturel et patrimoine : quelques analyses pour un Monde habitable

Abstract

This text puts into perspective the words that define cultural tourism, building both on official international documents and tourist practices that qualify it. Both approaches highlight two processes through which memory is produced and recast into specific places. The first process consists in the appointment by scholars and pundits who designate monuments. The second process is one of election. Tourists, by their physical presence in places, activate memory at the time of its transmission: cultural heritage. In the first case, tourists disturb what already exists. In the second case, on the contrary, tourists actually shape place and memory...

Keywords

• dwell
• mobility
• monuments
• cultural heritage
• cultural tourism