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Introduction: A ‘French Touch’ to Tourism Geography

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This chapter introduces the collection of essays and contextualises the recent developments of Francophone tourism geography. Especially, the focus on “touristic worlds” and the question of inhabiting are explained. Moreover, the specific geo-historic approaches of tourism are a distinctive element of Francophone tourism geography. Tourism also played a role in general or theoretical geography, in which it has fostered a renewed understanding of mobility and urban issues.

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  1. 1.

    See the remarkable volume by Benko and Strohmayer (2004) on commonalities and divergences – available both in English and French – and Clément, Stock and Volvey (2020) for an account of the last 20 years of French geography.

  2. 2.

    See Colletis-Wahl et al. (2006) for a general account of “territorial economy” and Peyrache-Gadeau (2017) and Talandier (2013) for an approach to tourism economics.

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    See the French national platform theses.fr at http://theses.fr/en/accueil.jsp that lists all French PhD dissertations for the last 30 years. To date there are 280 dissertations on tourism geography.

  4. 4.

    The Journal of Alpine Geography (https://journals.openedition.org/rga/index.html) is now a bilingual journal with many publications relating to tourism issues.

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    The first accounts of tourism in francophone geography go back to the 1930s just as we find in British, US-American and German geography. See Lazzarotti (2003), Ceriani et al. (2008), Morisset, Sarrasin and Ethier (2012) and Stock et al. (2017) for historical contextualisations.

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Stock, M. (2021). Introduction: A ‘French Touch’ to Tourism Geography. In: Stock, M. (eds) Progress in French Tourism Geographies. Geographies of Tourism and Global Change. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52136-3_1

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