La production d’une représentation touristique. Une objectivation des guides Lonely Planet sur le Groenland

• Published in: Belgeo
• Main Author: Delmas, Antoine
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: National Committee of Geography of Belgium 2013
• Subjects: tourism; backpackers; picturing; wilderness; Greenland; Lonely Planet; tourisme; représentation; “entre soi”; Groenland; geo; archi; Soi
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/7207

This article uses Lonely planet books published about Greenland between 1991 and 2005 to do a diachronic study. The central theme of these books is the will of their authors to highlight close-knit communities specific of main readership, backpackers. Criticize other tourists should be a way to crea...