[Backstage-list] CFP: Colloque international: Les mondes urbains du tourisme

[Michael Zinganel]

Von: Shelley Baranowski <savant at ATTGLOBAL.NET>
H-Net Network on Travel and Tourism History <H-TRAVEL at H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Datum: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 10:13:19 -0400
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International Symposium (January 13th and 14th 2005, Paris)

University of Paris 7-Denis Diderot  and University of Angers, School of
Architecture of Paris Val de Seine

Call for papers

Urban Worlds of Tourism

 
The relationship between tourism and urbanity is as important an issue for
urban spaces as for tourism in general. Nevertheless, it is seldom studied
that way and more often as a secondary aspect of one or the other
phenomenon, especially because tourism itself only begins to be considered
worth studying by the academy.

One explanation for this could be that specialists in the field of urbanity
have often shown few interest for tourism[2] and that specialists in the
field of tourism, on the other side, usually don’t consider themselves as
specialists also in the field of urbanity, whereas tourism is an
intrinsically urban system, combining urban populations and urban places,
one part of the latter being resorts. The tendency of the literature on
tourism to focus only on resorts is another reason for this relative absence
of the city in the studies about tourism. A careful look at these studies
shows that almost none of them have taken over the transition from resorts
to cities and to the architectural and morphological transformations
surrounding it. 

Last but not least, this area of study being at the crossroad of two
research fields usually invested and considered separately, it has obviously
suffered from the academic and institutional barriers and, consequently,
from the lack of research teams focus on this specific issue.

And yet, the stakes involved here are huge: in a world where people tends to
concentrate in the cities and where individual mobility grows continuously,
the connection between urbanity and tourism becomes increasingly complex and
rich. On one side, most of the tourists live in cities, meaning that their
urbanity will influence the way they look, they consider and they practice
any tourist destination. As a feedback, the cities they live in will be
affected by their tourist experience and by what they brought back,
literally and culturally. On the other end, these cities will have to learn
how to manage tourist flows, with their advantages, especially in case of a
local economic crisis, but also with their disadvantages, like conflicts
between several activities, permanent and temporary inhabitants, development
of local resources and protection of local heritage, between different
temporalities and mobilities, etc.

As are tourism and urbanity, the relationship between the two is dynamic and
it can influence the way places evolve towards urbanity, the urban way of
life or the way to be a tourist, for example by combining tourism and
leisure in metropolitan spaces.


This leads to the construction of several tourism urban worlds, that we
suggest you to study through the following sections:


1. Constructing the tourist city

- From the resort to the tourist city: urban-tourist routes of places (but
also: those cities which never became touristic).
- Tourism as a driving force for urbanisation and construction of urban
form.
- The importance of NTIC to the marketing of tourist places
- Metropolisation and tourism: tourism, a typical feature of the metropolis?

Is there any metropolis without tourism nowadays (not counting what is
called “business tourism”)? Does metropolitan tourism have specific aspects?

 

2. Inhabiting and using the tourist city

- Locals’ behaviours towards tourism.
- Dwelling the city as a tourist.
- Social analysis of tourism in the metropolis: different social levels in
urban tourism; tourism as a factor of social differentiation in urban
spaces.
- How tourism transforms cities.
- Tourism, heritage, urban sociability: urban leisure as tourist attraction;
heritage sites between tourism and urban sociability.
- New rhythms in tourist cities and connected settings.

 

3. Managing the tourist city

- Historical cities as museums?
- Festive cities.
- Urban conflicts between tourism and local heritage protection.
- Management of increasingly diverse practices and temporalities in urban
places.
- Tourist and non tourist mobility in the city.
- Core(s) and peripherie(s): evolution of tourist places in metropolitan
spaces. Neighbourhood strategies; suburbs initiatives, etc.

 

4. Evaluating and qualifying the city through tourism

- Another way of considering the value and quality of places and their role
in a globalised world.
- Cities, tourism and crisis: how to find a new balance through tourism.
- Tourism and centrality: tourist cities in the urban hierarchy.
- Tourist cities as urban models.

 
During the symposium, a panel discussion on “Tourist issues in Paris and
the Ile-de-France" will be organised with the taking part of experts working
in the tourist industry.

The symposium’s official language is French but papers in English and
Spanish will be accepted too.

 
The organising committee kindly invites you to send your papers, including
title, one page abstract, selected theme (1, 2, 3 or 4) and complete
whereabouts, before September 15th to the following address (by post or
e-mail):

 

Fidel DIAZ
Secretary of the laboratory of Urban Sciences
Université Paris 7 - Denis Diderot
Dalle des Olympiades
103 rue de Tolbiac
75013 Paris
Phone/fax : 33 (0)1-44-27-82-28
fidel.diaz at paris7.jussieu.fr
 

Selected papers should be returned to the organising committee by December
15th 2004.

Symposium fees (access and working papers, including lunches - 13th and
14th- and dinner -13th-, sum up to 50 Euros. Payment on the spot.

The symposium will take place on January 13th and 14th 2005 at the
Geographic Institute of Paris (191, rue Saint Jacques, Paris 5e).

 

Organising Commitee :

Evelyne Cohen (université Paris 7 – Denis Diderot), Philippe Duhamel
(équipe MIT, université Paris 7 – Denis Diderot), Giorgia Ceriani
(université de Provence, équipe MIT, Paris 7), Patrick Poncet (équipe MIT,
Paris 7), Rémy Knafou (équipe MIT, université Paris 7 – Denis Diderot).

rknafou at club-internet.fr

 

Scientific Commitee :

Maria Gravari-Barbas (université d’Angers), Philippe Cadène (université
Paris 7 – Denis Diderot), Dino Gavinelli (université de Milan), Rémy Knafou
(université Paris 7 – Denis Diderot), Jacques Lévy (université de Reims),
Michel Lussault (université François Rabelais, Tours), Jean-Luc Michaud
(Inspecteur général du Tourisme, Paris) André Rauch (université de
Strasbourg), Mathis Stock (université de Reims), Philippe Violier
(université d’Angers), Antonio Martin Zárate (UNED, Madrid).

The symposium is organised by the laboratory MIT (Mobilities, Itineraries,
Tourisms), within the framework of the research team « Urban Sciences » of
the university Paris 7 – Denis Diderot, and by the University of Angers,
with the sponsorship of the Regional Tourism Comity of the Ile-de-France, of
the City of Paris (to be agreed), and of the researchers’ network on tourism
from the Ile-de-France.

 
[1] Ce dont rend compte, notamment, l’absence de toute référence à la
question du tourisme, comme des loisirs, du reste, dans l’ouvrage « La ville
et l’urbain, l’état des savoirs », sous la direction de Thierry Paquot,
Michel Lussault et Sophie Body-Gendrot, La Découverte, 2000.

[2] For example, the book by Thierry Paquot, Michel Lussault and Sophie
Body-Gendrot (Eds) “La ville et l’urbain, l’état des savoirs”, published by
La Découverte in 2000, doesn’t once refer to the tourist phenomenon or even
to leisure.