What does Mass Tourism means?: Lessons from
some islands
Sauveur Giannoni
UMR CNRS LISA
November 18th 2016,
Island tourism economic and labour market implications,
RETI Symposium, Malta
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Starting point
CTO president in a local newspaper :
"We want a tourism in line with our
values", (February 2016).
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Research question(s)
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Research question(s)
I Why does a large fraction of Corsican people is willing to put an end to
mass tourism in Corsica? From a scholar (economist) point of view
Corsica is not a typical mass tourism destination.
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Research question(s)
I Why does a large fraction of Corsican people is willing to put an end to
mass tourism in Corsica? From a scholar (economist) point of view
Corsica is not a typical mass tourism destination.
I Why such a paradox?
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Research question(s)
I Why does a large fraction of Corsican people is willing to put an end to
mass tourism in Corsica? From a scholar (economist) point of view
Corsica is not a typical mass tourism destination.
I Why such a paradox? Are Corsican inhabitants foolish?
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Research question(s)
I Why does a large fraction of Corsican people is willing to put an end to
mass tourism in Corsica? From a scholar (economist) point of view
Corsica is not a typical mass tourism destination.
I Why such a paradox? Are Corsican inhabitants foolish? Am I a foolish
economist?
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Research question(s)
I Why does a large fraction of Corsican people is willing to put an end to
mass tourism in Corsica? From a scholar (economist) point of view
Corsica is not a typical mass tourism destination.
I Why such a paradox? Are Corsican inhabitants foolish? Am I a foolish
economist?
I What does mass tourism means? Is a large number of tourists a sufficient
condition? Should we trust the existing definitions? Should we go beyond?
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Which method?
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Which method?
I Comparative approach.
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Which method?
I Comparative approach.
I Transversal object : not a question for an economist
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Which method?
I Comparative approach.
I Transversal object : not a question for an economist could be for a
sociologist...
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Which method?
I Comparative approach.
I Transversal object : not a question for an economist could be for a
sociologist... or a psychologist
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Which method?
I Comparative approach.
I Transversal object : not a question for an economist could be for a
sociologist... or a psychologist
I Numerous methodological issues
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What do scholars say on mass tourism?
A simple (intuitive) view
Large number of people visiting the same place at the same time.
A scholar view
Fordist production of tourism (Poon, 1993).
Low prices
Development without planning
Large groups
Outside developers
Important peak
(Lane 1988, Butler 1990)
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Low prices?
Average rates per night
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Low Prices?
Annual average hotel rates
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Standardized supply?
Number of beds in accommodation establishments (2014)
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Standardized supply?
Number of accommodation establishments
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Some comparison
Area in km2
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Some comparison
Population (2014)
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Some comparison
GDP per capita (2014)
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Some comparison
Arrivals in accommodation establishment (2014)
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Some comparison
Number of night stays (2014)
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Some comparison
Average length of stay in accommodation establishments (2014)
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Some answers?
Accommodation establishments for 1000 inhabitants (2011)
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Some answers?
Number of arrivals per capita
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A conjecture
Conjecture
Tourism is not a matter of supply and demand but a matter of socio-economic
carrying capacity and residents’ perception.
In Corsica this carrying capacity is probably passed for a long time : Doxey’s
Irritation Index (1975).
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A potential consequence
Contrarily to what tourism scholars tend to believe a large spectrum of
supply-demand schemes may be perceived as mass tourism
Any island effect?
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Thank you for your attention.
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