Tourist Destinations According to Stakeholder Strategies

Pierre Louart is Professor Emeritus in Management Science. He headed the IAE de Lille, France, for 15 years and chaired the IAE network from 2006 to 2012.Jérôme Piriou is Associate Professor in Geography at the University of Angers, ESTHUA, France, and Researcher at the Espaces et Sociétés Laboratory.Philippe Violier is Professor Emeritus in Geography, member of the Espaces et Sociétés Laboratory in Angers, France, and was Director of ESTHUA from 2006 to 2021.

• Introduction. Tourist Destinations: At the Crossroads between Geographic and Organizational Proximity xiChapter 1. Case Studies 11.1. Amnéville or the extravagant invention 11.2. Center Parcs: a system driven by a large company 141.3. Cognac: spirits giant, tourist dwarf 191.4. Destination Anjou: a system developed by the CCI 421.5. The Dordogne Valley: political ambition at the service of administrative division 451.6. Tourism in the Lake Geneva region: the challenge for actors to step beyond boundaries. 511.7. Autour du Louvre-Lens: a UFO in a disadvantaged economic landscape 631.8. Mélusine accueil: a system of actors with no intermediation 701.9. Experimenting with a tourism cluster in Morbihan 711.10. Saumur and its region: making the territory an internationally recognized tourist destination 911.11. Saint-Jean-de-Monts: a community mostly gathering small entrepreneurs 961.12. Innovating tourism: the reason for being of the "Tourism InnovationLab" cluster 1091.13. Nantes: from a little-frequented city to tourist destination 120Chapter 2. Geographic Analyses 1292.1. Temporal circumstances 1292.2. The circumstances of places and spaces 1412.3. The games of actors 156Chapter 3. Managerial Analyses 1693.1. How to manage tourism systems? 1703.2. How to manage existing resources and enrich them or recompose them in an effective manner? 1743.3. Building a project or a group of compatible projects within the territory 1793.4. The revitalization of the networks of actors 1863.5. The establishment of appropriate governance 1983.6. Acknowledgments 207Chapter 4. Typologies and Recommendations 2094.1. Two open typologies 2104.2. General recommendations 2224.3. General conclusion: taking into account the spirit of the place! 246References 251Index 263