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Accepted Paper
Solidarity tourism: the misunderstandings of the meeting between some French tourists and Burkina Faso inhabitants
Nadège Chabloz
(Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)
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Paper long abstract
"Solidarity tourism" promises in particular an "authentic" meeting between tourists and visited villagers. A participating observation in a village of Burkina Faso accommodating French tourists, made it possible to observe and analyze the nature of interactions between tourists and inhabitants and to note that they are largely based on "misunderstanding". The latter which is related to the stereotypes and come mainly from reciprocal ignorance, hide other more delicate misunderstandings created or reinforced by solidarity tourism ideologies and discourses and transmitted by the NGO Tourism & Development association (TDS). This intervention based on notes of ground and interviews shows the illusory meeting caused by the majority of these misunderstandings. Moreover, this "illusion" is built and manipulated by TDS, by villagers and finally by tourists themselves.
E-paper: this Paper will not be presented, but read in advance and discussed
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