Delphine Rime (2025)
In Rainer Diaz-Bone & Guillemette de Larquier (eds.), Handbook of economics and sociology of conventions. Cham: Springer, Online first

Abstract. This article demonstrates how economics and sociology of conventions (EC/SC) is useful for understanding the socioeconomic processes related to tourism. Compared to other economic activities, the value creation process in tourism is stretched from a spatiotemporal perspective: value is built in two places and two “moments.” To carry out these economic transactions, the conventions established by the actors involved (whether demand or supply-side actors) are particularly readable due to this spatiotemporal stretching. This peculiarity is explored through the general principles of EC/SC (conventions, valuation) and through two particular concepts of EC/SC (enrichment and business model). It is also shown that it is because of this spatiotemporal stretching that tourism particularly well allows an understanding of the value construction processes that concern all economic activities.
The chapter discusses tourism-dependent regional development processes, which differ from development processes dependent on traditional industrial activities. Practical consequences of the evolution of tourism at the global level for regions are considered. The now constant and multidirectional flow of mobile consumers is of considerable importance in development dynamics. Thus, the established conventions for attractiveness on the one hand, and for territorial management vis-à-vis mobile consumers, are also evolving. The development of regions now depends on innovations of a more political and social nature than those traditionally theorized by the literature in economic geography and regional development.
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GdL (26 janvier 2025). Tourism, Regions, and Convention Theory. Économie des conventions. Consulté le 9 février 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/135zm