http://www.erudit.org/en/Volume 42, Number 1, 2023enThu, 03 Sep 2026 03:32:49 +0000https://assets.erudit.tech/static/img/logo-erudit.daebca8dc4fc.pnghttps://erudit.orghttp://www.erudit.org/en/journals/teoros/2023-v42-n1-teoros09473/1112671ar/Johan Vincenthttp://www.erudit.org/en/journals/teoros/2023-v42-n1-teoros09473/1112671ar/http://www.erudit.org/en/journals/teoros/2023-v42-n1-teoros09473/1112672ar/Samuel Jouault, Maxime Kieffer and Alejandro Montañez Giustianionovic<br />Participatory action research (PAR) is an approach that combines the reflections and efforts of different actors, academics, local stakeholders, and external experts, in order to seek solutions to concrete problems while producing reflections that are applicable in a broader context. This paper hypothesizes that PAR is a relevant research method in rural Mexico and applicable to alternative tourism because of the social transformation potential of participatory processes. The case study conducted in Yokdzonot (Yucatán, Mexico) with the Zaaz Koolen Haa cooperative illustrates this point of view while also highlighting the challenges of such an approach. A five-year project, involving about 100 actors, was carried out in this community and made it possible to experiment with different PAR tools, to achieve short- and medium-term results, including diagnoses, decision making, and organizational changes, and to produce projections for the management of the alternative tourism initiative. Among other things, this PAR project helped to highlight the virtues of learning communities in intercultural contexts. The difficulties encountered are attributed in part to the particular context of the community in its relationship to tourism, but they also make it possible to highlight recurring challenges in the PAR framework.http://www.erudit.org/en/journals/teoros/2023-v42-n1-teoros09473/1112672ar/http://www.erudit.org/en/journals/teoros/2023-v42-n1-teoros09473/1112673ar/David Arias-Hidalgo<br />The decolonisation and decolonial perspectives are now strongly embedded in the academic debate, in particular the fundamental contribution of Aníbal Quijano on the coloniality of power and race as constitutive elements of the global capitalist power model. In this article, the study starts from a broad bibliographical review of decolonial perspective, its main characteristics, its theoretical bases and its differences with postcolonial postures. We examine in depth the academic production (Spanish, French and English speaking) on tourism and the links with the decolonial perspective. We also propose some elements of reflection on the tourism coloniality and “buen vivir” from a decolonial turn to reflect on tourism in the indigenous communities context, based on our experience of working with indigenous communities in Latin America. As a main conclusion, the decolonial perspective can be a very useful framework of ideas, theories, and concepts in times of crisis, to generate critical thinking around indigenous tourism.http://www.erudit.org/en/journals/teoros/2023-v42-n1-teoros09473/1112673ar/http://www.erudit.org/en/journals/teoros/2023-v42-n1-teoros09473/1112674ar/Nathanael Wadbled<br />The touristic approach has modified the epistemological framework in which research is carried out on historical places associated with death or massacres. By highlighting the relationship of tourists with the spaces visited, it has paved the way for approaches to heritage centred on its use rather than its intrinsic interest. The tourist approach thus echoes the communicational turn of museology. It includes a series of works that are intertwined and succeed one another historically in focusing on the person of the visitor. The tourist then appears caught up in a social practice responding to specific functions, motivated to participate in it or engaged in it, as well as having a subjective experience of his activity. Explaining this movement is not acknowledging progress in research. Rather, it is mapping dynamically this field of research, in a history of ideas. This offers each research a resource to determine its situation within this network, assuming both its perspective and its positioning in relation to others.http://www.erudit.org/en/journals/teoros/2023-v42-n1-teoros09473/1112674ar/http://www.erudit.org/en/journals/teoros/2023-v42-n1-teoros09473/1112675ar/Yves Cinotti<br />English-speaking professionals and researchers now refer to the hotel and catering industry as the “hospitality industry.” Although the French press is beginning to use the term “ industrie de l’hospitalité ,” French researchers who studied hospitality refuse to do so, considering that hospitality cannot be monetized. However, if we define hospitality as “sharing one’s own home,” we can identify forms of tourism hospitality : domestic hospitality, territorial hospitality, and commercial hospitality. This raises the question of whether the hotel and restaurant industry is really a hospitality industry. Or would it be better to talk about a welcome industry ?http://www.erudit.org/en/journals/teoros/2023-v42-n1-teoros09473/1112675ar/http://www.erudit.org/en/journals/teoros/2023-v42-n1-teoros09473/1112676ar/Sylvine Pickel-Chevalier<br />The globalization of tourism calls for reflections on new scientific approaches. We argue that intercultural research, conceived of not as a discipline but an epistemological approach that resides in both object and method, is an essential tool for understanding the world. Taking our work in Indonesia as example, we intend to demonstrate, above all, the ability of intercultural research to enrich geographic approaches to tourism. The development of sociocultural tourism in the Indonesian archipelago is the result of complex processes that fuse appropriation, resistance, and innovation. They testify to the creative capacity of individuals and groups, who through hybridization incorporate exogenous influences into the plurality of their own cultural baggage. Our methodology includes the creation of international university consortia which embark on a structuralist constructivist venture to promote the decentring of researchers themselves. This approach foments the development of skills in reconciling diversity and cultural sharing, and in intermediation, as well as the transfer of methods and interrogation of concepts through deconstruction. Furthermore, our work seeks to demonstrate that while the geographical approach to tourism can be nourished by an intercultural epistemological approach, it contributes, in turn, to the latter’s enrichment.http://www.erudit.org/en/journals/teoros/2023-v42-n1-teoros09473/1112676ar/http://www.erudit.org/en/journals/teoros/2023-v42-n1-teoros09473/1112677ar/Laurent Tissot<br />Although Switzerland is historically recognized as a country that experimented with tourism activities at an early stage and can still count on their economic and symbolic benefits today, have its researchers devoted much scientific attention to it? Have they given in-depth consideration to tourism’s contributions to changes in the country’s physical and natural environment, to the political and social configurations of its population, and to the global climatic and economic outcomes? This article aims to clarify the links between the tourism sector and the scientific activities—methodological, epistemological, historical, and problematic—that have addressed it in order to understand its evolution and impacts. It will make use of three databases that allow for an inventory of the research that has been supported in this field. The first database comes from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), which has made available the projects accepted since 1973, all disciplines included. The second is a review undertaken by the Swiss National Library of all publications (books and articles) on Swiss history issued in Switzerland and abroad. The third one has been put into service by the Swiss Historical Society, which makes accessible the theses/dissertations/licences defended in the discipline of history in Swiss universities.http://www.erudit.org/en/journals/teoros/2023-v42-n1-teoros09473/1112677ar/http://www.erudit.org/en/journals/teoros/2023-v42-n1-teoros09473/1112678ar/Eric Passavant<br />Increasingly more women are travelling alone. The Zellidja travel scholarships are an ideal opportunity to analyze the reasons for this trend. They are open to all young people aged between sixteen and twenty, provided they travel alone for a minimum of one month and write a study report on a theme of their choice. The vast majority of applicants are women. A semi-structured interview survey reveals the strategies they use to anticipate risks and manage dangers. It shows that dispositions to travel alone are acquired through family practices to establish a practical tourist sense. The strategies of three groups with different social characteristics are described. Women from working class backgrounds and with a low holiday culture seek greater protection. Women from middle- and upper-class families are educated in an international goodwill that emphasizes plural tourism practices. They must mobilize different strategies to manage the dangers they encounter. Women from international families travel in familiar territory, which allows them to maintain a vigilant trust in the other.http://www.erudit.org/en/journals/teoros/2023-v42-n1-teoros09473/1112678ar/http://www.erudit.org/en/journals/teoros/2023-v42-n1-teoros09473/1112679ar/Roxane Toumia and Isabelle Cloquet<br />This paper aims to contribute to the literature on the adaptation of the tourism sector to ongoing digitalization. It does so by examining how destination management and governance are being changed with the so-called digital transition of human societies and economies. Whereas the tourism literature tends to address this issue from a techno-centric perspective, embedding research in notions such as smartness or smart tourism destination, a more critical approach is adopted in this study. This is done by confronting existent techno-centric conceptual frameworks with empirical findings regarding the challenges encountered by public and private tourism practitioners involved in the management of the destination Brussels, Belgium. The study results highlight how the challenges posed by digitalization are far from being confined to the field of technology. Indeed, they seem deeply intertwined with structural, economical, social, and environmental issues.http://www.erudit.org/en/journals/teoros/2023-v42-n1-teoros09473/1112679ar/http://www.erudit.org/en/journals/teoros/2023-v42-n1-teoros09473/1112680ar/Rym Bakiri and Samira Debache-Benzagouta<br />Constantine is a city of Eastern Algeria, going back over three thousand years. It abounds with tourist assets that have made its distinction and celebrity for several civilizations. Its Old City is one of the most important tourist attractions. Visiting its streets allows to navigate through the history, culture, and arts of a city that is several thousand years old. This article aims to identify the ancient tourist routes in Constantine using two methods of analysis: quantitative, through the use of space syntax; and qualitative, through historical research and observation. These serve to understand the logic of tourists’ movements within the ancient fabric and to detect, in the current configuration, the busiest routes as well as the oldest and best provided in historical monuments and places. The study revealed that, contrary to what the current spatial configuration would lead to believe, the pre-colonial routes and paths are the most interesting to visit as they include the greatest concentration of historical monuments and sites.http://www.erudit.org/en/journals/teoros/2023-v42-n1-teoros09473/1112680ar/http://www.erudit.org/en/journals/teoros/2023-v42-n1-teoros09473/1112681ar/Johan Vincenthttp://www.erudit.org/en/journals/teoros/2023-v42-n1-teoros09473/1112681ar/http://www.erudit.org/en/journals/teoros/2023-v42-n1-teoros09473/1112682ar/Samuel Jouaulthttp://www.erudit.org/en/journals/teoros/2023-v42-n1-teoros09473/1112682ar/http://www.erudit.org/en/journals/teoros/2023-v42-n1-teoros09473/1112683ar/Jean-Christophe Gayhttp://www.erudit.org/en/journals/teoros/2023-v42-n1-teoros09473/1112683ar/