Industrie touristique et développement : quelques enseignements

Ahmed, Abdelkader Sid

doi:10.3406/tiers.1987.4559

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“…It is in this historical and ideological context that the IMF and the World Bank, but also the World Tourism Organization and, more generally, the United Nations, encourage tourism, which presents a possible alternative to the problems of developing economies, characterized, inter alia, by a structural deficit in their balance of payments. To this end, "the policy of encouragement led by the World Bank and its subsidiaries in the 1960s for the inclusion of tourism in development plans has convinced the countries still hesitant" (Sid Ahmed, 1987).…”

Section: Empire or The Blueprint Of A Decentered And Deterritorializementioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism in the Sustained Hegemonic Neoliberal Order

Lapointe

Sarrasin

Benjamin

2018

Rev. Latino-Am. Turismologia

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Sustainable Development (SD) has become a unifying concept that transcends conflicting discourses. Over time it has become a fundamental political concept in the current world order. This paper explores the structures that (re)produce the world-system in which tourism is embedded. Following Fletcher’s (2011) demonstration of tourism as a force of capitalist expansion, we will refer to the concept of the International Political Economy (IPE) to discuss how the world-system has been structured and institutionalized. It appears fundamental to understand this path to face the actual IPE construct in which we see tourism grow year after year in scale and scope. The shift towards neoliberalism as a main narrative has been vastly discussed (Harvey, 2007; Brown, 2015; Mosedale, 2016) but we will turn to the Hardt and Negri’s Theory of Empire (2000). We will first consider the question of how sustainable development, within its virtuous global reach, is in fact, a primarily Empire-like discourse, especially when it is carried by International deterritorialized institutions. The second question we will address is the role of tourism in the moments of Empire processes of transformation and globalisation. We conclude that tourism is contributing to the main process of globalization and the market dominance of neo-liberalism expressed in Empire. If there is different strand of thought and research that advocates tourism and sustainable development as a locus of change in the economic and world system, it has only had limited success at the margins, while discourses of globalization and mass tourism keep going strong.

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Section: Empire or The Blueprint Of A Decentered And Deterritorializementioning

confidence: 99%