Crise, action et mutations : le Haut-Atlas marocain et les effets d'une programmation du tourisme / Crisis, action and change : the Moroccan High Atlas Mountains and the effects of tourism programming

摘要

Abstract : The author examines the changes brought about by the implementation of a tourism development project, begun in a pilot area of the central High Atlas Mountains in 1984 as part of a Franco-Moroccan cooperative programme aimed at the developing the mountain areas of Morocco. The decision to base development on a « soft tourism » model is discussed and an assessment made of the effects of tourist activity. The assessment draws attention to the complexity of relationships between tourists and host populations and to the development of a new social group made up of tour guides and gîte owners. The emergence and the practices of this new group have revived or generated rivalry and jealousy within regional communities which were formerly considered to be united.