Ambiguities and difficulties in partnership relations: the case of ‘fair tourism’ in Western Africa
| Autor: | Bernard Schéou, Amandine Southon |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Acteurs, Ressources et Territoires dans le Développement (UMR ART-Dev), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
| Předmět: |
Economic growth
business.industry Tourism geography 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development Certification Solidarity partnership relations [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences Fair trade Ecotourism Tourism Leisure and Hospitality Management Political science General partnership 0502 economics and business 050211 marketing fair tourism business development North–South cooperation 050212 sport leisure & tourism Tourism Alternative tourism |
| Zdroj: | Current Issues in Tourism Current Issues in Tourism, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2013, Tourism in sub-Saharan Africa: production–consumption nexus, 16 (7-8), pp.753-772. ⟨10.1080/13683500.2013.785486⟩ |
| ISSN: | 1368-3500 |
| Popis: | International audience; In France, a few tour operators gathered together to form the Association for Fair and Solidarity Tourism (ATES), created with the intention of using tourism to contribute to the development of certain destination areas through the implementation of fair relationships with the host communities. Although ‘fair tourism’ is an emerging theme in research on tourism, and the subject of an increasing number of studies, especially on the Fair Trade in Tourism in South Africa certification initiative, very few academic studies have focused on partnership relations, the difficulties they face and their influences on the fairness of the resulting tourism. With the help of field work investigating ATES members and their partners in Senegal, Mali and Burkina Faso, we highlight, understand and interpret the relationships encountered by the partners in this North–South cooperation and the factors that are likely to influence it. We found that fair-tourism projects face the same issues, and are likely to give rise to the same failures, as development projects. One major difficulty results from the idealisation of the partner, which inevitably leads in turn to a mismatch between the expected and the actual behaviour of the actors involved. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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