3-5 April 2008

The seminar Tourism, heritages, identities and territories uses a selection of papers that have as their central theme a reflection on the notion of territory and its links with tourism, heritage and identity, in an attempt to broaden perceptions of the concept of territory and to redefine it according to its implications for the areas of tourism, sustainable development and the processes for the reconstruction of identity. Specifically, the seminar examines the question as to whether nowadays, at a time in which mobility is having an unprecedented effect on tourism, the re-evaluation of the territory as a space of social identification and an area for development could turn into a source of conflict or, in contrast, one of social and economic progress. The papers cover the following areas:

• Urban territories, frameworks for living and creators of social relations.
• Territories of conversion.
• Territories “under construction” (or in expansion).
• Border territories that were in the past forgotten or perhaps relegated in importance, and which today have become true laboratories at the cutting edge of the construction of Europe.

Free attendance, with limited seating
Registration: bataillou@univ-perp.fr

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