Jérôme Piriou, PhD in geography, is a lecturer-researcher at La Rochelle Business School – Excelia Group, and member of the Centre de Recherche en Gestion (Research Center of Management) (CEREGE) in France. His research focuses on local development and the spatial practices of tourism stakeholders.

• Part 1. The Region, a Complex Concept Applied to Tourism 1. Tourist Places, with their Foundations in the Tourist Region.2. The Tourist Region, a Localized Area and Localizer.3. Geographical Approaches of the Tourist Region. Part 2. Stakeholder Logics in the Practice of a Tourist Destination in a Regional Dimension4. Tourists and their Territories Practices in a Regional Representations as a Tool to Define the Tourist Region as Experienced Dimension.5. Investors and their Structuring of Regional Tourist Territories. 6. Developers and Local Actors Mobilization for Promotion of their Regional Territories. 7. The Prescribers and the Encouragement of Regional Practices. Part 3. Reading the Tourist Region Using Networks of Places Analysis 8. Regional Tourism Distribution in Networks of Places.9. Definition of Regional Tourist Functions of Places.10. Place Positions in the Tourist Region.11. Connection of Tourist Places in Networks via Tourist Mobilities.