ABSTRACT
Tourism must be examined as a process through a diachronic and dynamic lens, considering both before and after tourism. For a long time, tourism has focused on the places created to host it; since the very beginning of the tourism phenomenon over two centuries ago, tourism has operated as a formidable producer of spaces. The traditional “inhabitant-tourist” and “ordinary-extraordinary” dichotomies have been superseded by two triptychs: the “consumer, practitioner, inhabitant” triptych which “makes it possible to consider hybridisation as a combination of a recreational place and a place to live”, and the “visitor, spectator, stakeholder” triptych “which allows to consider in-between states which occur between recreational practice and work, or between recreational practice and activism”. The dialectic between the ordinary and tourism and current transformations can be understood through the prism of the spatial dimension and of practices themselves. Some contributions argue in favour of the hypothesis of the replacement of the era of traditional tourism by a “new era”.
