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Le tourisme dans les îles et littoraux tropicaux : ressources et enjeux de développement

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  • Olivier Dehoorne

    (LISA - Lieux, Identités, eSpaces, Activités - UPP - Université Pascal Paoli - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CEREGMIA - Centre de Recherche en Economie, Gestion, Modélisation et Informatique Appliquée - UAG - Université des Antilles et de la Guyane)

  • Pascal Saffache

    (UAG - Université des Antilles et de la Guyane)

Abstract

This study highlights the importance of tourism issues for the tropical islands. The singularity of the spaces is too often overlooked because of the strength of fantasized representations of the tropical island which is seen as a paradise, a place of accomplishment desires unlimited with an easy life, with its sunny shores, between coral reefs and white sandy beaches lined with coconut trees. These intangible wealth are based on real resources, abundant and vulnerable, like the emblematic image of coral reefs. Although the tropical island destinations are not supported the weight of the major touristic regions of the world but their flows should be reconsidered in the light of the characteristics of these territories (small size, load population, shortage of land, limits of resources) that require defining specific indicators. But the advent of mass tourism in these last frontiers, these "Pleasure Periphery" needs to question the sustainability of tourism development strategies.

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  • Olivier Dehoorne & Pascal Saffache, 2008. "Le tourisme dans les îles et littoraux tropicaux : ressources et enjeux de développement," Post-Print hal-01624747, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01624747
    DOI: 10.4000/etudescaribeennes.852
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