Une méthodologie pour reconstruire la mondialisation du tourisme

Abstract

The process of globalization of tourism results in the passage of a sparse set of tourist places, located only in some parts of the world, to a dense tourist field, interrelated on a global scale. What is the spatiality of such expansion of the tourism field? Can we quantify the number of tourist places that constitute the system at different moments? To answer this question, it is necessary to see how the process of globalization of tourism is developing. From a geographical point of view, we adopt the perspective of places, whose successive emergence, reproduction and end as tourist destination is significant for the period between 1800 to 2000. This article aims at accounting on a methodology that allows for constructing the necessary data in order to answer the questions raised above. It focuses on the identification of the number and periodisation of tourist places and a first cartography of the construction of the global tourism field.

Keywords

• tourism field
• globalization of tourism