Tourism diversification paths in ski mid-mountain territories: any transformations?

Les trajectoires de diversification du tourisme dans les territoires de moyenne montagne: des transformations ?

Laura Rouch () and Emmanuelle George
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Laura Rouch: UR LESSEM - Laboratoire des EcoSystèmes et des Sociétés en Montagne - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Fédération OSUG - Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes
Emmanuelle George: UR LESSEM - Laboratoire des EcoSystèmes et des Sociétés en Montagne - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Fédération OSUG - Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes

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Abstract: In the context of adapting to global changes, the diversification of the tourist offer seems to be a solution for the mid-mountain areas, which are structured around and dependent on ski tourism. However, it remains unclear how tourism diversification occurs, what forms it can take and what it produces at a territorial scale. In this study, we apply a theory of regional diversification to the case of tourism in order to examine tourism diversification paths. We base our analysis on qualitative data collected on two French study areas: the intercommunities of the massif du Sancy and of the Haut-Chablais. Our results show a pattern in tourism diversification paths, following three steps that can lead to the abandonment of the perimeter of the ski resort. However, among the different types of tourism diversification trajectories, only a saltation form of tourism diversification can lead to the establishment of a larger and more diversified tourism system. Our findings also show that several types of tourism diversification paths can coexist at a territorial scale.

Keywords: Diversification trajectory; Mountain tourism; ski tourism transformation; Territorial approach; Evolutionary economic geography (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-11-12
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Published in Current Issues in Tourism, 2023, 27 (24), pp.4430-4445. ⟨10.1080/13683500.2023.2276788⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2023.2276788

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