Tourisme et « coronisation » au Mali : des visiteurs à l’abri des rumeurs

Abstract

While Covid-19 globally sent the tourism economy into freefall, it had a smaller impact on tourism in Mali, where the sector collapsed in a context of crisis and war long before the pandemic. But if tourism and the coronavirus have had little to do with each other, they were united in the extension of grievances they have caused against the former colonial power. In Mali, the accusations of neo-colonialism, which have been brought against tourism elsewhere, are made against France as much for its military interventions as for its fight against the pandemic. In these denunciatory speeches, tourism paradoxically becomes a victim of the system that created it.

Keywords

• Covid-19
• Mali
• tourism
• neo-colonialism
• rumors