Slow tourism, una oportunitat per a la transformació del turisme?

Abstract

This essay-style article, aims to clarify some of the concepts with which the slow movement is expressed in the field of tourism, as well as to introduce some of the debates it has generated: the potentialities of its association with a process of revaluation of local gastronomy, the motivations of the slow tourist and, finally, the opportunities, but also contradictions and limitations of a proposal of this type to transform tourism in an emancipatory sense.

Learning from crises: challenges and opportunities for rural inland territories in the south-west of France after COVID-19

“…The dynamics of mobility during these months of 2020 in inland areas, in many cases gave rise to the need to manage large flows of visitors (Ibarra & Rabanaque, 2020). The time horizon is not long enough to understand whether these dynamics have been temporary (Izcara & Cañada, 2020) or whether they correspond to more profound changes that effectively constitute an opportunity to redefine the tourism activity, principally in inland territories (Cheer, 2020;Brouder, 2020). In any event, it can be considered as an opportunity for the local actors.…”