Yanis Oussalem-Wallon
Postdoc Researcher -oussalem@unice.fr
Presentation
Yanis Oussalem-Wallon is postdoctoral researcher at Urmis Nice.
Keywords: geography, tourism; space, fitting, ownership.
Space tourist multilevel fitting
Direction and challenges of the representations and practices in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), example in Romania and Serbia
Abstract
The socialist model failed in all Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), particularly in Romania and Serbia. These areas are being rebuilt over a long period of transition, looking for a new way of modernity and European perspectives. The current context of globalization and individualization is characterized by an awareness of economic, social and environmental impacts of the tourism phenomenon.
This thesis is made jointly supervised doctoral between the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (France) and the University of Oradea (Romania). This study also benefited of the active participation of the universities of Belgrade, Iasi and Cluj-Napoca. It aims to identify and analyze the different levels of tourism spatial ownership from concrete cases. Through examples of the Carpathians (Apuseni Mountains), Eastern Danube (Belgrade at the Iron Gate) and the Romanian coast of the Black Sea, this traveling research proposes a new way of understanding the tourism in multiple aspects (actors, places, representations, choice, uses, mobility, ownership, etc.).
This multidisciplinary approach, based on the conceptual field of psycho-geography of tourism, marked a qualitative methodological approach. The latter focuses on participant observation and interviews with tourists, professionals and the local population, shows different levels of ownership in the scale of tourism (from the global to the end). The Multilevel Analysis System of Appropriation Space ownership (MASASO) uses three surveys, based on the perceptions and uses space to highlight the forms of appropriation.
Before departure, the choice of destination and tourism is heavily influenced by the perceived future visitors’ picture. Decision making and information, including through guidebooks and Technologies of Information and Communication (TIC), is a form of tourism préappropiation space. The latter is oriented toward self and otherness of individuals, because it includes the booking of activities and sights, specific travel plans. Once there, the tourist appropriates the host by its uses consumer space, mobility and change of living. Tourists temporarily privatize places such as production areas and tourist accommodation, and leaves marks. These forms of ownership are helping to change the scene and the perceived tourist, by improving knowledge of haunts picture. Finally, the return of the stay, the dispossession of the space is by sharing experiences, memories and travel experiences. For the transmission and dissemination of advice and information on areas visited, the individual influences the choice and helps to préappropriation of potentially space coveted by others. This interconnected postappropriation closes the cycle (loop) of the tourism spatial appropriation.