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The Unesco effect?
[L’effet Unesco ?]

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  • Patrice Ballester

    (GEODE - Géographie de l'environnement - UT2J - Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès - UT - Université de Toulouse - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, MSHS-T - Maison des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société de Toulouse - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UT - Université de Toulouse, UPPA - Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour)

Abstract

With rising environmental concerns and the creation of indicators such as carbon footprint, mass tourism practices must evolve to more sustainable in order to keep a positive image. It should be less mercenary, contemplation and slower. Think local tourist landscape becomes a means of reinstating the environmental requirements in the debate's territorial optimal economic growth. The landscape value as leverage public-private strategies enables the creation, justification, and self-maintenance of sustainable tourism. There is a particular case with the effects of UNESCO classification on the world heritage list of humanity which implies positive or negative consequences on tourist territories. Despite two UNESCO rankings, Carcassonne is experiencing the fate of small and medium-sized French towns, with a city center that is becoming deserted and a high unemployment rate. Examples of the Canal du Midi and the medieval city of Carcassonne, classified by UNESCO can highlight three factors which power of landscape despite deep urban and social discontinuities : (1) sustainable tourism strategies are multi-scalar, multi-lever. (2) we see the birth, difficult, an eco-tourist sensitive at the landscape and its development will promote environment

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  • Patrice Ballester, 2011. "The Unesco effect? [L’effet Unesco ?]," Post-Print hal-04307131, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04307131
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