Encyclopaedia

The objective of the Encyclopédie scientifique et technique du tourisme et des loisirs (Scientific and Technical Encyclopaedia of Leisure and Tourism) is to produce a scientific summary of knowledge and issues related to tourism and to mobility systems.

The goals are to clarify how the field is approached by specialists in different disciplines, to encourage debate and work towards a body of shared concepts and ideas.

The target users are scientists (to promote mutual knowledge across disciplines and create a scientific corpus of multidisciplinary concepts/ideas), professionals (with a view to disseminating scientific research) and students (as an educational tool for sharing knowledge on tourism and on the means by which this knowledge is produced in the different disciplines).

This online pulication takes several formats (shorter texts in the form of conceptual articles, or longer more encyclopaedic versions reviewing a key topic in the field). The topics addressed include concepts, paradigms, themes, categories, places, regions, authors, actors and personalities.

An editorial committee coordinates the project (identification of the required words, relations with authors, submission to the scientific committee and online publication), and approves the proposals  (words/author(s)).

The editorial committee calls upon GIS members to contribute on topics related to their work and their areas of specialisation. GIS members are the primary but not the exclusive authors. Interested GIS research lecturers can propose articles to the editorial committee. The editorial committee may call upon authors on specific issues where expertise is not available within the GIS. A specifications schedule defines the formats.

A

Accomodation capacity

Agritourism

Air transport and airline models

Airbnb (geography of)

Anthropology of tourism

Atlantic City

Atout France

B

Balance of payments

Beach

Biarritz

Boating area

Butler model

C

Campsite

Cap d'Ail

Charter airlines

Circuit, loop

Coastal law (Loi Littoral)

Commercial accommodation

Conservatoire du Littoral (Coastal Conservancy)

Côte d’Azur (French Riviera)

Covid-19

D

Deauville (history of)

Departure rate

Destination revenue management

Discovery

Domestic tourism, internal tourism

Duchess of Berry

E

Eductour

Edward Bruner

Emotional labour

Everest

F

Financial guarantee (for travel agents)

Flagler, Henry

Flip-flops

France

France, regional approach

French overseas territories

G

Globalisation

H

Health of tourists, health of destinations

Hill station

Holiday club

Holiday village

Holidays

Hospitality

Hossegor

Hotel

I

International tourism

J

Joanne

L

Learning

Leisure and free time

Low cost airlines

M

Major international sporting events (MISE)

Marina

Mass (tourism)

Medical

Menton

Monaco (Principality of)

Mondialité

Mouillage

Mountain law (Loi Montagne)

N

National park

Nature reserve

Naturism

Nice

Non-commercial accommodation

Nudism

O

Occupancy rate

Ocean cruising

Overnight stay

P

Package holiday

Package travel

Package travel or organised travel

Pereire brothers

Play

Plog's model

Practices

Private Resort

Promenade

Proximity (tourism)

R

Recreation

Regional Natural Park

Resort

Resort town

Rest

Retirement, retired seniors, the elderly

Revenue management

Riviera

Rosalie, Cuistax or Billenkar (buttocks cart)

S

Sarlat-la-Canéda

Seasonality

Second homes

Sender and receiver

Sex tourism

Shopping

Snow plan

Sociability

Statistics (on tourism)

Stay

Stopover town (French Ville-étape)

Summer Camps (Colonies de Vacances)

Sun Tanning

T

Thermal resort

Thermalism

Time-sharing

Tour operator

Touring Club de France

Tourism

Tourism balance

Tourism carrying capacity

Tourism consumption

Tourism development

Tourism product, service

Tourism Satellite Account

Tourist city or village

Tourist expenditure

Tourist function rate

Tourist location

Tourist resort

Tourist site

Tourist visa

Touristified city

Touristified village

Town resort

Traditional airlines

Travel Agency

Travel Agent

Trekking

Typology of tourisms

V

Visit

W

Water sports

Weekend

World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC)

X

Xi’an

Y

Yachting

Ypres

Z

Zhangjiajie