Publications associées à Tourisme

Commoning the touristic city. Urban pedestrian routes and the ambiguous politics of exploration

This chapter explores touristic infrastructures as politics of ambiance, paying attention to the way they enable urban environment and engage pedestrians to experience cities critically. This issue will be documented through an ethnographic study of two to ...

Routledge2023

Transnational Expertise and Local Policies for the Architecture of Spanish Tourism Industry

Sila Karatas

This chapter discusses the political, economic and spatial encounters between transnational networks and national structures behind the raise of international tourist trade and local industry in the 1960s Spain. Through a cross-reading between the privatiz ...

Routledge2022

Science on the Summit: Exploring Scientific Tourism Through the Lens of Eighteenth Century Mountain Ascents

Jérôme Baudry, Simon François Dumas Primbault, Ion-Gabriel Mihailescu

This contribution argues that a particular scientific context made summits a place of interest for eighteenth-century travelers. This development is connected to two particular scientific practices. First, the challenges raised by making the barometer into ...

IGA-ASSOC DIFFUSION RECHERCHE ALPINE2022

Wet Markets and Food Safety: TripAdvisor for Improved Global Digital Surveillance

Sharada Prasanna Mohanty, Martin Mathias Müller

Background: Wet markets are markets selling fresh meat and produce. Wet markets are critical for food security and sustainable development in their respective regions. Due to their cultural significance, they attract numerous visitors and consequently gene ...

2019

A General Equilibrium Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Swiss Winter Tourism with Adaptation

Marc Vielle, Camille Gonseth

Winter alpine tourism has been repeatedly identified as one of the economic sectors most at risk from climate change in Switzerland. However, all of the costs that have been estimated so far for the Swiss tourism sector are, to some extent, misleading as t ...

SPRINGER2019

Carbon Footprint of Academic Air Travel: A Case Study in Switzerland

László Dániel Tóth, Guillaume Jean Op 't Veld, Joachim Armand Simonne Ciers, Aleksandra Mandic

Relatively low travel costs and abundant opportunities for research funding in Switzerland and other developed countries allow researchers large amounts of international travel and collaborations, leading to a substantial carbon footprint. Increasing willi ...

2019

Cost and benefits of climate change in Switzerland

Philippe Thalmann, Marc Vielle, Frank Vöhringer, Boris Thurm, Dario Stocker, Wolfgang Knoke, Anita Frehner

Understanding the economic magnitude of climate change impacts is a prerequisite for developing adequate adaptation strategies. In Switzerland, despite new climate scenarios and impact studies, only few impacts have been monetized. Our objective is to asse ...

2019

The commodification of alternative cultural spaces

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Letícia Cabeçadas Do Carmo

The commodification of "alternative" cultural spaces is a process that started to take place in several European cities, like Lisbon, for instance. This has happened due to the pressure of the real estate market, tourism trends or the austerity measures im ...

2018

Impacts of climate change for Swiss winter and summer tourism: a general equilibrium analysis

Marc Vielle, Frank Vöhringer, Boris Thurm

Tourism could be greatly affected by climate change due to its strong dependence on weather. In Switzerland, the sector represents an appreciable share of the economy. Thus, studying climate effects on tourism is necessary for developing adequate adaptatio ...

2017

Mitigating the impact of errors in travel time reporting on mode choice modelling

Michel Bierlaire, Aurélie Glerum, Amanda Blomberg Stathopoulos, Giovanni Longo, Silvia Francesca Varotto

Travel time is a major component in understanding travel demand. However, the quantification of demand and forecasting hinges on understanding how travel time is perceived and reported. Travel time reporting is typically subject to errors and this paper fo ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2017