From creating to managing resorts

Developing tourist facilities in the mountains is often based on an approach evoking its “enhancement” (Guérin, 1984) based on massive investments sustained by heavy funding from the outside. However, local actors, private as public ones, were not passive and they also brought their investments, ide...

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Main Authors: Emmanuelle George-Marcelpoil, Hugues François
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut de Géographie Alpine 2013-03-01
Series:Revue de Géographie Alpine
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/rga/1925
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spelling doaj-46915a4b8f4c481f80d8fa258f3b46082021-09-02T03:48:46ZengInstitut de Géographie AlpineRevue de Géographie Alpine0035-11211760-74262013-03-01100310.4000/rga.1925From creating to managing resortsEmmanuelle George-MarcelpoilHugues FrançoisDeveloping tourist facilities in the mountains is often based on an approach evoking its “enhancement” (Guérin, 1984) based on massive investments sustained by heavy funding from the outside. However, local actors, private as public ones, were not passive and they also brought their investments, ideas to develop mountain tourism. Growth of ski resorts has thus been relying on crossed local and global forces, leading to a diversity of local developments. Nevertheless, nowadays, in a strongly competitive context, their becoming is uncertain, specifically linked to cableway companies’ strategies and organisation. Thus, the analyse of three pattern of management, through three cableway managers, involved in Tarentaise’s resorts will aim to highlight the regional factor and its consequences for local development in Savoie.http://journals.openedition.org/rga/1925ski resortwinter destinationsregionalisationtourism developer and managerTarentaise Valleycableway companies
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winter destinations
regionalisation
tourism developer and manager
Tarentaise Valley
cableway companies
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Hugues François
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publisher Institut de Géographie Alpine
series Revue de Géographie Alpine
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publishDate 2013-03-01
description Developing tourist facilities in the mountains is often based on an approach evoking its “enhancement” (Guérin, 1984) based on massive investments sustained by heavy funding from the outside. However, local actors, private as public ones, were not passive and they also brought their investments, ideas to develop mountain tourism. Growth of ski resorts has thus been relying on crossed local and global forces, leading to a diversity of local developments. Nevertheless, nowadays, in a strongly competitive context, their becoming is uncertain, specifically linked to cableway companies’ strategies and organisation. Thus, the analyse of three pattern of management, through three cableway managers, involved in Tarentaise’s resorts will aim to highlight the regional factor and its consequences for local development in Savoie.
topic ski resort
winter destinations
regionalisation
tourism developer and manager
Tarentaise Valley
cableway companies
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