The mission of the chair on tourism dynamics and socio-territorial relations is to participate in the development of knowledge about tourism as a complex phenomenon, an act vector of production of meaning, and to offer a conceptual and methodological device multi / trans disciplinary (s) to the scientific communities as well as to professionals, in order to understand the issues relating to tourism according to an approach favoring the complexity and the interrelation between its political, geographical and social dimensions.
The chair thus has two objectives:
- Understand the processes and mechanisms at the heart of the production of tourists areas.
- Contribute, from a critical perspective, to the renewal of theories and practices associated with tourism development.
It is through a research project based on Quebec that the chair will address: the geographies, policies and discourses on which tourism in Quebec is built as well as on forms of inhabiting (urban, rural, Aboriginal, etc. .) and entrepreneurship which are suggested, ordered and implemented by these geographies, policies and discourses and how to redeploy them in specific spaces via laboratory approaches combining participation and creation.
The conceptual and methodological tool developed from this research will serve as a basis for working on comparisons with other environments in partnership with other centers abroad (Lausanne, Barcelona, Wakayama, etc.)