The Effect on Tourism in Small and Medium-Sized Cities in France Following Inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List: a Case Study on Carcassonne, its Medieval City, and the Canal du Midi[L’effet sur le tourisme des petites et moyennes villes en France des suites de l’inscription dans la Liste du patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO, étude de cas sur Carcassonne et sa cité médiévale - canal du Midi]

With rising environmental concerns and the creation of indicators such as carbon footprint, mass tourism practices must evolve to more sustainable in order to keep a positive image. It should be less mercenary, contemplation and slower. Think local tourist landscape becomes a means of reinstating the environmental requirements in the debate's territorial optimal economic growth. The landscape value as leverage public-private strategies enables the creation, justification, and self-maintenance of sustainable tourism. There is a particular case with the effects of UNESCO classification on the world heritage list of humanity which implies positive or negative consequences on tourist territories. Despite two UNESCO rankings, Carcassonne is experiencing the fate of small and medium-sized French towns, with a city center that is becoming deserted and a high unemployment rate. Examples of the Canal du Midi and the medieval city of Carcassonne, classified by UNESCO can highlight three factors which power of landscape despite deep urban and social discontinuities : (1) sustainable tourism strategies are multi-scalar, multi-lever. (2) we see the birth, difficult, an eco-tourist sensitive at the landscape and its development will promote environment