International Tourism, Internationalization and the Challenge to Identity

The Relationship Between the Language of Tourism, Tourism and Sociology

“…The link between tourism and sociology was noted by Lanfant (1995) who also suggested that the sociology of tourism and its sociological object should capture the multi-polarity of tourism. To give relevance to the sociological turn of the language of tourism, the present article tackled the relationship between language and sociology and then the relation that sociology bears to tourism.…”

“…Lanfant (1995) suggests that the sociology of tourism and its sociological object should capture the multi-polarity of tourism as a ''total social phenomenon''. Lanfant (1995) also posits that to deal with tourism social theories does not mean only abstractly linking them with general sociology and its main paradigms, but also taking into consideration all social issues.…”

Anthropologie, tourisme et sociétés locales au fil des textes

“…Dans la foulée, de nombreux auteurs se sont attelés à la tâche de discuter la persistance et l'altération de l'identité lorsque le tourisme entre en jeu. Il en va ainsi de la sociologue française Marie-Françoise Lanfant (1995), dans un article introduisant le volume International Tourism : Identity and Change (Lanfant et al 1995), lequel contient une palette d'études de cas sur ce thème et dont la lecture est éclairante. Robert Wood (1997) Dans le cadre des études sur l'identité, certaines thèses sur l'ethnicité ont été appliquées au tourisme (Butler et Hinch 1996) Van den Berghe (1980), bien que le tourisme puisse effectivement être vu comme une forme de relations ethniques, il faut tenir compte de particularités : la relation est de courte durée en ce qui concerne les individus, le touriste a un statut contradictoire -personnage important à cause de sa richesse, mais incompétent pour ce qui est de la connaissance de ses hôtes @ ; et ce sont les hôtes qui doivent s'adapter au visiteur, contrairement aux autres situations de rencontres ethniques dans le cadre, par exemple, de l'échange d'époux ou de l'immigration.…”

Tourism, Imaginaries and Identities: reversing the point of view

“…It also suggests that local motivations for the development of tourism may link social relations and collective identities to the economic goals, which are most often highlighted. A few publications from the past two decades have suggested a number of research avenues related to such an idea (Rodriguez, 1998;Erb, 2000;Lanfant et al, 1995) but have not delved deeply therein. In this article, I would like to develop this idea in a systematic way by testing the following hypothesis: when they feel the imperative to achieve some measure of collective identity or to work on their internal cohesion, local communities can come to initiate or direct a process of touristic development, thus aiming to combine on the one hand its expected economic benefits, and on the other, the political status and advantages expected to flow from increased visibility, as well as cultural dynamism or symbolic prestige.…”