| Abstract: |
Of an economic approach of the tourism, made by applications of the
instruments of the economist for this new field of investigation, we are
gradually spent in a research on a tourist economy based on the specificities
of this last one : Its temporal dimension (saisonnality of the activities,
variation of the prices, market’s deformations); its spatial economic
dimension (transfer of consumptions, incomes, employments, mobility of
capital); its micro economic dimension (creation of a tourism’s product –
assembly of ill-assorted services-, marketing by package price, imperfect
competition, barriers in the entry). More recently it is its registration in
yard of savings services societies and its potential of innovations which were
revealed. Research in touristic economy needs rigour, coherence to progress in
a world of uncertainties; It must necessarily explain, in other words to
answer the question: how? While referring to the economists, for many users,
the models can help there. But this research, by its characteristics, cannot
be satisfied some, because it must aim also to help to understand, in other
words to answer the question: why? Try to answer it, widens the field of the
approaches possible and joined multidisciplinarity: It is necessary that
tourist economy considers that the tourist is not only a consumer of tourism
and the Tour operator a producer of services, but that they are, one and the
other, consumer and producer of meaning. The force and the difficulty in
interpreting this meaning also lie in culture, history, space and its
organization. |