The Tourist Region : A Co-Construction of Tourism Stakeholders.

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- I.1. The place as a starting point -- I.2. Tourism practices and choice of destination -- I.3. From the practice of tourist places to the practice of a tourist region -- PART 1: The Region, a Complex Concept Applied to Tourism -- Introduction to Part 1 -- 1. Tourist Places, with their Foundations in the Tourist Region -- 1.1. The tourist place, a locality chosen in spatial tourism practices -- 1.2. Diversity of tourist places according to practices -- 1.3. Basic tourist places at the local level -- 1.3.1. Places dominated by tourism -- 1.3.2. Places not dominated by tourism -- 1.4. Tourist places on a regional scale -- 1.5. Conclusion -- 2. The Tourist Region, a Localized Area and Localizer -- 2.1. How to define the tourist region? -- 2.1.1. The region in geography -- 2.1.2. The tourist region -- 2.2. Regional spatializations of the tourism phenomenon -- 2.2.1. The world's major tourist regions -- 2.2.2. Regional approaches to tourism within a country -- 2.2.3. Localized regional tourist areas -- 2.3. Construction of a regional tourism area -- 2.4. Conclusion -- 3. Geographical Approaches of the Tourist Region -- 3.1. A regional geography of tourism -- 3.1.1. Example of the analysis of the tourism phenomenon in the Saint-Malo region (France) -- 3.1.2. Example of the analysis of tourism in the province of Quebec (Canada) -- 3.2. The functional region of tourism -- 3.2.1. The use of the center-periphery model to explain the tourism region in French-language literature -- 3.2.2. The use of the center-periphery model to explain the tourist region in English literature -- 3.3. The tourist region, a lived space -- 3.3.1. The region as a lived space -- 3.3.2. Representations as a tool to define the tourist region as experienced.

3.4. Tourist places and mobility in a regional dimension -- 3.5. Conclusion -- PART 2: Stakeholder Logics in the Practice of a Tourist Destination in a Regional Dimension -- Introduction to Part 2 -- 4. Tourists and their Territories Practices in a Regional Dimension -- 4.1. Spatial skills linked to tourist mobilities within a space of regional dimension -- 4.2. Itineraries and routes according to tourist mobilities on a regional scale -- 4.3. Reading tourist mobilities to understand spatial practices with a regional dimension -- 4.3.1. A space laboratory: the Lake Geneva Region, a diversity of tourist places in a homogeneous lake landscape -- 4.3.2. A methodology: spatialization of a life story and representation by schematic maps -- 4.3.3. One observation: an insertion of places into networks of more or less important spatial dimension according to tourist mobilities -- 4.4. Conclusion -- 5. Investors and their Structuring of Regional Tourist Territories -- 5.1. The private investor and their creation of regional tourism territories -- 5.1.1. From the creation of equipment to the multiplication of tourist places -- 5.1.2. Organization of a regional tourism offer -- 5.2. The public investor and its regional spatial planning through tourism -- 5.2.1. Government investment for tourism diffusion -- 5.2.2. Tourism planning in a regional dimension by public institutions -- 5.2.3. Intervention of public actors in the creation of tourist places for regional diffusion of tourism -- 5.3. Conclusion -- 6. Developers and Local Actors Mobilization for Promotion of their Regional Territories -- 6.1. Public actors and the collective interest of a territory in a regional dimension -- 6.1.1. The case of the urban tourism development of Nantes (France) and its regional extension.

6.1.2. The case of natural parks, creation of a territory of regional dimension with a view to developing tourism through a landscape -- 6.2. Private actors and their territorial valuations in the interest of their companies -- 6.2.1. The case of the Cognac vineyard (France) in the mobilization of spirits and tourism stakeholders to promote a region in a regional dimension -- 6.2.2. The case of the Santa Claus region (Lapland) in the exploitation of an imagination for a regional tourism development -- 6.3. Make the territory a shared brand to develop a regional tourist destination -- 6.3.1. "Loire Valley", a brand that promotes a regional tourist destination -- 6.3.2. Brittany, between cultural territory and administrative territory, as a tourist brand? -- 6.4. Conclusion -- 7. The Prescribers and the Encouragement of Regional Practices -- 7.1. The prescription to guide tourists in their choice of places -- 7.2. The prescription of the local advisors to select the places -- 7.3. The prescription for a regional experience -- 7.4. Conclusion -- PART 3: Reading the Tourist Region Using Networks of Places Analysis -- Introduction to Part 3 -- 8. Regional Tourism Distribution in Networks of Places -- 8.1. Translating tourist mobilities, according to stories, into graphs and matrices -- 8.2. Neighborhood relationships to analyze the regional dimension of networks -- 8.2.1. Neighborhood relationships of valued graphs as a measure of the gap between places within the same network -- 8.2.2. Neighborhood relationships of directed graphs as a measure of the way in which places are connected within the same network -- 8.3. Multi-level regional networks of tourist places according to mobilities -- 8.3.1. The regional hub and the regional multi-hub: nodes linked from the core(s) -- 8.3.2. The regional agglomerate based on diffusion and continuous mobilities.

8.3.3. The regional continuum structured by continuous mobilities -- 8.4. Conclusion -- 9. Definition of Regional Tourist Functions of Places -- 9.1. The recreational functions of places according to tourist practices -- 9.2. The regional tourism function of places according to recreational functions -- 9.2.1. Types of regional tourism functions -- 9.2.2. Calculation of the specialization index to measure the regional tourism function of places -- 9.2.3. Some results of the regional tourism function of the Lake Geneva region places -- 9.3. Evolution of a place to develop the regional tourist function -- 9.4. Conclusion -- 10. Place Positions in the Tourist Region -- 10.1. The inclusion of places in the networks of tourist places according to mobilities -- 10.1.1. The connectedness index to better understand the inclusion of places according to the complexity of the networks -- 10.1.2. Some results of network connectedness and place integration in the Lake Geneva region -- 10.1.3. The connectivity index to better understand the connection density of places in networks -- 10.1.4. Some results of the network connectivity and the inclusion of places within the Lake Geneva region -- 10.2. Developers are involved in positioning the place to be integrated into tourists' spatial practices -- 10.2.1. The case of Franco-Swiss cross-border cooperation to promote the practice of tourist places around Lake Geneva -- 10.2.2. The case of a redistribution of regional tourist destinations to adapt to the practices of tourist places in Brittany -- 10.3. Conclusion -- 11. Connection of Tourist Places in Networks via Tourist Mobilities -- 11.1. Measurement of the nodality degree of tourist places in networks -- 11.2. Some results of the nodal function of the tourist places within the Lake Geneva region.

11.3. Suggesting the connection of tourist places and changing nodality -- 11.4. Conclusion -- Conclusion -- References -- Index -- Other titles from iSTE -- EULA.

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