June 13-15, 2012, Québec, Canada
June 13-15, 2012, Québec, Canada: Tourism, Roads and Cultural Itineraries: Meaning, Memory and Development. Organizatorzy. Université Laval and, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France, University of Birmingham, UK. Cele konferencji.
The road connects places, peoples and pasts. From the Silk Road across Asia to Route 66 across the USA, the road allows flows of people, goods and ideas. Starting from simple functional pathways, roads are worn into the ground, social life and economy and into complex networks. As a route connecting ‘home and away’, ‘to and from’ and, as marker for territory, as well as a vector for cutting across territorial boundaries, the road is embedded in tourism in its most basic sense allowing and directing the journey, the excursion, pilgrimage and circuits through landscapes and cultures. The road also provides a fluid space for inter-cultural engagement, encounter and exchange. Along the road, and on the road, all life passes by and leaves its mark in terms of settlement, staging posts, signs and memories.
In the modern development of tourism the notion of the itinerary has become well established; in many cases building on historical routes, roads and circuits devised for non-leisure purposes. Such itineraries are shaped by various ideas: of access to sites of meaning, spiritual renewal and places of cultural and commercial activity; of the ‘scenic’ where the journey is transcended by the landscape it passes through; of embodied struggle and challenge against the terrain of the road; of adventurous incursion into forbidden territory and; of heritage and memory where belonging and meaning is sought. ● For further information on the Conference, please refer to: http://quebecunitwin.ggr.ulaval.ca/?lang=en