Paris-Plages or the staging of distance: tourist referents in the everyday world
SIMON ; PRADEL
Type de document
ARTICLE A COMITE DE LECTURE REPERTORIE DANS BDI (ACL)
Langue
anglais
Auteur
SIMON ; PRADEL
Résumé / Abstract
Paris-Plages is unique in that it offers a range of ambiances and experiences which are cut off from the city centre yet entirely anchored in it. This escape from the routine city environment may be understood as a temporary and original process in which one takes on a tourist role through a reversal of places (from the city to the beach) and practices (from city-dweller to seaside holiday-maker). Our empirical analysis reveals a set of tourism-related codes drawn from the world of seaside holidays that are mobilized in this temporary environment then re-appropriated by the ?seaside tourists', including practices related to relaxation and mixing with others. Paris-Plages bears witness to the role of tourism as a referential in urban and spatial organization strategies, by suggesting that the city-dweller ?play the tourist' in an urban environment that has been temporarily but profoundly transformed.
Source
Current Issues in Tourism, pp1-11 p.
Editeur
Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
