Tourismophobia

Jean-Christophe Gay is a geographer and a full professor at the IAE Nice, Graduate School of Management (Université Côte d'Azur, France). He is a member of the URMIS laboratory and is Scientific Director of the Institut du Tourisme Côte d'Azur.

• Acknowledgments viiIntroduction ixChapter 1 Allegations 11.1 Unsustainable exponential growth 21.2 Overtourism 31.3 A form of colonization 91.4 An outcry against cruise ships 121.5 Conclusion 16Chapter 2 Inventions 172.1 Original sin 172.2 Tourism versus travel 202.3 The sententious elite 272.4 Conclusion 31Chapter 3 Distinctions 333.1 The crowd and the masses 343.2 “Happy few” 413.3 Too easy! 483.4 Conclusion 55Chapter 4 Discriminations 574.1 “Refugees welcome, Tourist go home!” 584.2 Anglophobia 624.3 Misogyny 674.4 Conclusion 72Chapter 5 Illusions 735.1 Nostalgia 735.2 The good old days 765.3 The feeling of being too late 795.4 Urbanophobia 835.5 Conclusion 91Chapter 6 Alienations 936.1 Conditioned beings 946.2 It is all fake 986.3 Egotourism 1036.4 Tourism posture 1066.5 Conclusion 110Chapter 7 Omissions 1117.1 Half-measures 1117.2 Who remembers the Minister of Tourism? 1167.3 Tourism and academia 1207.4 The Bourdieu mystery 1267.5 Conclusion 131Chapter 8 Injunctions 1338.1 Sustainable tourism 1348.2 What about your carbon footprint? 1398.3 Whose turn is it? 1438.4 Conclusion 145Conclusion 147References 155Index of Common Nouns 161Index of Proper Nouns 163