The tourism diversification in French ski resorts: which effective drivers for a sustainable tourism in mountain?
La diversification des stations de ski françaises : quels leviers pour la mise en place d'un tourisme durable en montagne ?
Résumé
The ski resorts were developed in France since the 1930’s. These resorts were only specialized on the alpine ski during the winter’s season. However, the global change imposes an adaptation of the ski resorts. Among the great variety of solutions, we focalize in this paper on the diversification of their offer, and especially the implementation methods of this diversification. This analysis in terms of governance and regional economy conducts to the identification of effective drivers for optimize the implementation of a sustainable tourism in mountain.