Paris-Plages or the staging of distance: tourist referents in the ‘everyday’ world

Gwendal Simon

Current Issues in Tourism, 2020, vol. 23, issue 2, 153-163

Abstract: Paris-Plages is unique in that it offers a range of ambiances and experiences which are cut off from the city centre yet entirely anchored in it. This escape from the routine city environment may be understood as a temporary and original process in which one takes on a tourist role through a reversal of places (from the city to the beach) and practices (from city-dweller to seaside holiday-maker). Our empirical analysis reveals a set of tourism-related codes drawn from the world of seaside holidays that are mobilized in this temporary environment then re-appropriated by the ‘seaside tourists’, including practices related to relaxation and mixing with others. Paris-Plages bears witness to the role of tourism as a referential in urban and spatial organization strategies, by suggesting that the city-dweller ‘play the tourist’ in an urban environment that has been temporarily but profoundly transformed.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2018.1479380

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