Habiter en touriste, c’est habiter le Monde

On the basis of the renewal of geographical studies on tourism, it became necessary in the course of the 1990s to invent a new concept capable of recognizing and reporting on the singularities of "societies with mobile inhabitants". Naming the geographical dimension of humanity, the concep...

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Main Author: Olivier Lazzarotti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Éditions Touristiques Européennes 2018-06-01
Series:Mondes du Tourisme
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/tourisme/1484
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Summary:On the basis of the renewal of geographical studies on tourism, it became necessary in the course of the 1990s to invent a new concept capable of recognizing and reporting on the singularities of "societies with mobile inhabitants". Naming the geographical dimension of humanity, the concept of "dwelling" is now returned to its starting field, to unveil the invisible of the tourism: the one that makes of each tourist an inhabitant and of all of them cohabitants. This leads, then, to the hypothesis that the tourist "regime of dwelling" is at one of the foundations of the contemporary world.
ISSN:2109-5671
2492-7503