The tourist is not this person a bit boorish and herd which is so often portrayed. It is a complex traveler who carries with him his desires and dreams. His ways of traveling speak volumes about our society and our times.
Analysis of tourism practices are often exposed to a first error, which consists in amalgamating the subject and the phenomenon. To confuse or refuse to distinguish the tourist tourism. Thus the observation of the traveler as a person - with his desires, values and dreams - it disappears in favor of the study due to mass: quantity, number, its spaces, its flow. On behalf of sociological distance, statistics or neutral merchant realism, as one comes to a purely accounting approach to tourism practices: times, durations, percentages, frequencies, locations, transport, seasons, accommodation, dating ...
These approaches have of course their utilities. But they ignore all the psychological aspects of the trip. Tourism can not be reduced in the windows of tour operators or come down to the opinions of guides, hoteliers and other tourism professionals. Against this error, it is going to encounter here a subject without which the tourism phenomenon would not. To explore the jungle of myths and imaginary, representations and projects that result. The "soft map" of possible trips, trends or complex geography of vacationers ... No desires without tourism tourist. Truism? Probably. But it seems nevertheless useful to recall and yet still this fact anyway: "The traveler is still what matters most in the trip (1)! "
Analysis of tourism practices are often exposed to a first error, which consists in amalgamating the subject and the phenomenon. To confuse or refuse to distinguish the tourist tourism. Thus the observation of the traveler as a person - with his desires, values and dreams - it disappears in favor of the study due to mass: quantity, number, its spaces, its flow. On behalf of sociological distance, statistics or neutral merchant realism, as one comes to a purely accounting approach to tourism practices: times, durations, percentages, frequencies, locations, transport, seasons, accommodation, dating ...
These approaches have of course their utilities. But they ignore all the psychological aspects of the trip. Tourism can not be reduced in the windows of tour operators or come down to the opinions of guides, hoteliers and other tourism professionals. Against this error, it is going to encounter here a subject without which the tourism phenomenon would not. To explore the jungle of myths and imaginary, representations and projects that result. The "soft map" of possible trips, trends or complex geography of vacationers ... No desires without tourism tourist. Truism? Probably. But it seems nevertheless useful to recall and yet still this fact anyway: "The traveler is still what matters most in the trip (1)! "
Source : scienceshumaines
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