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Dominic Lapointe
Department of Urban and Tourism Studies, University of Quebec in Montreal, Montreal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada

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Journal article
Published: 08 June 2021 in Tourism and Hospitality
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The UNWTO’s discourse has focused on managing the effects of COVID-19 on tourism mobility since the outbreak was taken over by the WHO, as tourism is prominent amongst the hardest hit sectors. Emanating from the UNWTO as one of the dominant stakeholders in tourism discourse construction, an interesting component is the new meaning attributed to ‘responsible tourism’, which coincides with severe sanitary measures in this moment. Through critical discourse analysis and the theoretical framework offered by Iris Marion Young on responsibility for justice, this article will first demonstrate how the reappropriation of the term is in line with the UNWTO’s neoliberal perspective on tourism. The result is the promotion of sanitary measures for the protection of tourism as a consumer industry, rather than for the protection of the individuals involved. It is also cementing the pedestal on which the UN agency places the tourist-consumer, namely through the International Code for the Protection of Tourists project. This paper closes with thoughts on how the emerging dominant discourse on responsible tourism is internalized by tourism stakeholders as the new normal, which would gain in being explored through the lens of Foucault’s work on the concept of biopolitics and the neoliberal subject.

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Sabrina Tremblay-Huet; Dominic Lapointe. The New Responsible Tourism Paradigm: The UNWTO’s Discourse Following the Spread of COVID-19. Tourism and Hospitality 2021, 2, 248 -260.

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Sabrina Tremblay-Huet, Dominic Lapointe. The New Responsible Tourism Paradigm: The UNWTO’s Discourse Following the Spread of COVID-19. Tourism and Hospitality. 2021; 2 (2):248-260.

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Sabrina Tremblay-Huet; Dominic Lapointe. 2021. "The New Responsible Tourism Paradigm: The UNWTO’s Discourse Following the Spread of COVID-19." Tourism and Hospitality 2, no. 2: 248-260.

Chapter
Published: 07 January 2021 in Progress in French Tourism Geographies
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Territory is a central concept of geography to address issues of spatiality. We will survey how English and French geographies have constructed the notion of territory. Then we question how its pairing with tourism intersect alterity and mobility with fixity with the aim of unpacking its theoretical implications. Finally, we expose that tourism is a recoding of territories through an economy of signs that challenge the traditional way of looking at development through a production economy.

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Dominic Lapointe. Tourism Territory/Territoire(s) Touristique(s): When Mobility Challenges the Concept. Progress in French Tourism Geographies 2021, 105 -116.

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Dominic Lapointe. Tourism Territory/Territoire(s) Touristique(s): When Mobility Challenges the Concept. Progress in French Tourism Geographies. 2021; ():105-116.

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Dominic Lapointe. 2021. "Tourism Territory/Territoire(s) Touristique(s): When Mobility Challenges the Concept." Progress in French Tourism Geographies , no. : 105-116.

Articles
Published: 25 May 2020 in Tourism Geographies
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Patrick Brouder; Simon Teoh; Noel B. Salazar; Mary Mostafanezhad; Jessica Mei Pung; Dominic Lapointe; Freya Higgins-Desbiolles; Michael Haywood; C. Michael Hall; Helene Balslev Clausen. Reflections and discussions: tourism matters in the new normal post COVID-19. Tourism Geographies 2020, 22, 735 -746.

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Patrick Brouder, Simon Teoh, Noel B. Salazar, Mary Mostafanezhad, Jessica Mei Pung, Dominic Lapointe, Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, Michael Haywood, C. Michael Hall, Helene Balslev Clausen. Reflections and discussions: tourism matters in the new normal post COVID-19. Tourism Geographies. 2020; 22 (3):735-746.

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Patrick Brouder; Simon Teoh; Noel B. Salazar; Mary Mostafanezhad; Jessica Mei Pung; Dominic Lapointe; Freya Higgins-Desbiolles; Michael Haywood; C. Michael Hall; Helene Balslev Clausen. 2020. "Reflections and discussions: tourism matters in the new normal post COVID-19." Tourism Geographies 22, no. 3: 735-746.

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Published: 05 May 2020 in Tourism Geographies
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One of the transformations induced by the almost complete halt of tourism due to the COVID-19 pandemic has been a turning of the tourism sectors to a greater orientation towards their host communities. The enclavic tendencies of tourism areas, along with a multilayered approach to alterity gives insight into ongoing changes in the Quebec, Canada, tourism industry that have been enhanced by the COVID-19 pandemic. These changes points to a relinking of tourism to the needs of the host communities as part of a survival strategy in a time when there are no tourists, and could become, in the long run, a resilience strategy. On the other hand, there is a possibility of a reinforcement of the alterity and a further delinking of tourism in a “6 foot-tourism world” where sanitary safety would be at the core of a closed and controlled tourism development.

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Dominic Lapointe. Reconnecting tourism after COVID-19: the paradox of alterity in tourism areas. Tourism Geographies 2020, 22, 633 -638.

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Dominic Lapointe. Reconnecting tourism after COVID-19: the paradox of alterity in tourism areas. Tourism Geographies. 2020; 22 (3):633-638.

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Dominic Lapointe. 2020. "Reconnecting tourism after COVID-19: the paradox of alterity in tourism areas." Tourism Geographies 22, no. 3: 633-638.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2020 in Téoros: Revue de recherche en tourisme
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Ce numéro de Téoros porte sur les territoires considérés comme « non touristiques » parce qu’ils sont à la marge, en périphérie, excentrés des destinations touristiques reconnues. Le tourisme se définissant comme un séjour « hors de l’environnement habituel », cet ailleurs doit néanmoins être suffisamment « extra-ordinaire » pour encourager le déplacement.

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Pascale Marcotte; Dominic Lapointe; Bruno Sarrasin; Laurent Bourdeau. Nulle part ailleurs. La périphérie touristique en question. Téoros: Revue de recherche en tourisme 2020, 39, 1 .

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Pascale Marcotte, Dominic Lapointe, Bruno Sarrasin, Laurent Bourdeau. Nulle part ailleurs. La périphérie touristique en question. Téoros: Revue de recherche en tourisme. 2020; 39 (2):1.

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Pascale Marcotte; Dominic Lapointe; Bruno Sarrasin; Laurent Bourdeau. 2020. "Nulle part ailleurs. La périphérie touristique en question." Téoros: Revue de recherche en tourisme 39, no. 2: 1.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2020 in Téoros: Revue de recherche en tourisme
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Dominic Lapointe; Bruno Sarrasin; Jean Lagueux. Gestion, biopolitique et prospective : Quels regards pour la suite du monde ? Téoros: Revue de recherche en tourisme 2020, 39, 1 .

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Dominic Lapointe, Bruno Sarrasin, Jean Lagueux. Gestion, biopolitique et prospective : Quels regards pour la suite du monde ? Téoros: Revue de recherche en tourisme. 2020; 39 (3):1.

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Dominic Lapointe; Bruno Sarrasin; Jean Lagueux. 2020. "Gestion, biopolitique et prospective : Quels regards pour la suite du monde ?" Téoros: Revue de recherche en tourisme 39, no. 3: 1.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2020 in Téoros: Revue de recherche en tourisme
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Les régions périphériques enclavées se retrouveraient souvent face à d’importants enjeux de développement pour lesquels le tourisme serait maintes fois évoqué comme solution alternative au développement extractif traditionnel. Toutefois, un tourisme basé sur les ressources naturelles serait susceptible de reproduire des logiques similaires à celles de l’extraction. Cet article propose donc une lecture parallèle des effets générés par ces deux types de mise en valeur des ressources naturelles sur l’île d’Anticosti, grâce à la théorie du développement géographique inégal. Malgré l’abondance des ressources naturelles, la situation géographique de même que l’historique d’accumulation par dépossession du milieu limiteraient les capacités d’appropriation de la population locale. En somme, les résultats démontrent que la mise en tourisme des ressources naturelles de même que leur extraction transforment toutes deux les usages du territoire et créent des inégalités par rapport aux retombées économiques produites.

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Audrey Morin; Dominic Lapointe. S’approprier la nature : le développement géographique inégal par le tourisme et l’extraction sur Anticosti. Téoros: Revue de recherche en tourisme 2020, 39, 1 .

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Audrey Morin, Dominic Lapointe. S’approprier la nature : le développement géographique inégal par le tourisme et l’extraction sur Anticosti. Téoros: Revue de recherche en tourisme. 2020; 39 (2):1.

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Audrey Morin; Dominic Lapointe. 2020. "S’approprier la nature : le développement géographique inégal par le tourisme et l’extraction sur Anticosti." Téoros: Revue de recherche en tourisme 39, no. 2: 1.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2020 in Téoros: Revue de recherche en tourisme
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Pascale Marcotte; Mohamed Reda Khomsi; Isabelle Falardeau; Romain Roult; Dominic Lapointe. Tourisme et Covid-19. Téoros: Revue de recherche en tourisme 2020, 39, 1 .

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Pascale Marcotte, Mohamed Reda Khomsi, Isabelle Falardeau, Romain Roult, Dominic Lapointe. Tourisme et Covid-19. Téoros: Revue de recherche en tourisme. 2020; 39 (3):1.

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Pascale Marcotte; Mohamed Reda Khomsi; Isabelle Falardeau; Romain Roult; Dominic Lapointe. 2020. "Tourisme et Covid-19." Téoros: Revue de recherche en tourisme 39, no. 3: 1.

Research article
Published: 23 October 2019 in International Journal of Tourism Research
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Climate change makes the tourism industry vulnerable, as many of its resources will be heavily impacted by its effects. Coastal destinations are likely to be the most affected by rising sea levels and extreme weather events, calling for a sociospatial analysis of the dynamics of peripheral coastal tourism communities. Using a production of space framework, we describe how tourism space is produced and (re)produced in two Canadian communities located along the St. Lawrence River estuary: Tadoussac and Notre‐Dame‐du‐Portage. A case study methodology including observation, semistructured interviews, and discourses analysis is applied to deconstruct the sociospatial process of climate change adaptation. The main findings stress the importance of discourse and land tenure strategies used by different stakeholders. Managers of publicly owned land tend to make environmental strategies (green infrastructure) central to their adaptation strategies, whereas private land owners tend to use man‐made interventions (grey infrastructure) and closing space strategies to protect and enhance their land values in response to the increasing threat and evidence of climate change impacts. The results call for further research that takes the social processes of value creation embedded in land tenure and land markets into account.

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Dominic Lapointe; Coralie Lebon; Alexis Guillemard. Space in transformation: Public versus private climate change adaptation in peripheral coastal tourism areas—Case studies from Quebec, Canada. International Journal of Tourism Research 2019, 22, 238 -251.

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Dominic Lapointe, Coralie Lebon, Alexis Guillemard. Space in transformation: Public versus private climate change adaptation in peripheral coastal tourism areas—Case studies from Quebec, Canada. International Journal of Tourism Research. 2019; 22 (2):238-251.

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Dominic Lapointe; Coralie Lebon; Alexis Guillemard. 2019. "Space in transformation: Public versus private climate change adaptation in peripheral coastal tourism areas—Case studies from Quebec, Canada." International Journal of Tourism Research 22, no. 2: 238-251.

Book chapter
Published: 31 July 2017 in Tourism Resilience and Adaptation to Environmental Change
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Dominic Lapointe; Bruno Sarrasin. (Re)production of resilient tourism space in the context of climate change in coastal Quebec, Canada. Tourism Resilience and Adaptation to Environmental Change 2017, 141 -156.

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Dominic Lapointe, Bruno Sarrasin. (Re)production of resilient tourism space in the context of climate change in coastal Quebec, Canada. Tourism Resilience and Adaptation to Environmental Change. 2017; ():141-156.

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Dominic Lapointe; Bruno Sarrasin. 2017. "(Re)production of resilient tourism space in the context of climate change in coastal Quebec, Canada." Tourism Resilience and Adaptation to Environmental Change , no. : 141-156.

Book review
Published: 04 July 2017 in Journal of Heritage Tourism
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Dominic Lapointe. Tourism and Indigeneity in the Arctic. Journal of Heritage Tourism 2017, 13, 378 -379.

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Dominic Lapointe. Tourism and Indigeneity in the Arctic. Journal of Heritage Tourism. 2017; 13 (4):378-379.

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Dominic Lapointe. 2017. "Tourism and Indigeneity in the Arctic." Journal of Heritage Tourism 13, no. 4: 378-379.

Journal article
Published: 10 October 2016 in Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes
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Purpose The purpose of the paper is to explore how climate change and the discourses about adaptation to climate change are altering the spatial development of the tourism industry in coastal destinations. The paper also identifies how tourist development and climate change adaptation can be combined to transform space and place, especially in coastal tourism areas. Design/methodology/approach Using a theoretical approach based on the concept of production of space, the study focuses on relational space, relationships expressed through representations of space and social practices. A case study method is used to analyze the socio-geographic processes at work in the adaptation to climate change in a coastal tourism community in Quebec, Canada. The analysis of the study utilized Nvivo with thematic textual queries. Findings The results reveal an adaptation process at work, based on a “hold the line” strategy, where private stakeholders choose to invest in defensive structures to mitigate the impact of rising sea levels and erosion. This strategy reflects coordinated action in the face of the risk and to protect high-value land property. Research limitations/implications This research illustrates how tourism and climate change adaptation discourses intersect. It also reveals how tourism development promotes the values and image of coastal space and how this can conflict with an efficient climate change adaptation strategy. Originality/value This research provides guidelines for coastal tourism communities, enabling them to design their own climate change adaptation strategy, taking into account how the different social discourses and tourism practices interact with climate change adaptation. It also provides some insights into the criteria that influence an effective climate change adaptation strategy.

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Dominic Lapointe; Coralie Lebon; Alexis Guillemard. Coastal tourism space in the context of climate change: discourses and strategies. Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes 2016, 8, 549 -559.

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Dominic Lapointe, Coralie Lebon, Alexis Guillemard. Coastal tourism space in the context of climate change: discourses and strategies. Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes. 2016; 8 (5):549-559.

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Dominic Lapointe; Coralie Lebon; Alexis Guillemard. 2016. "Coastal tourism space in the context of climate change: discourses and strategies." Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes 8, no. 5: 549-559.

Journal article
Published: 28 March 2016 in Études caribéennes
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L’article présente comment les enjeux et les relations socioéconomiques qui sous-tendent la construction des discours sur le développement touristique influencent les pratiques matérielles dans le processus d’appropriation des territoires. Il soutient que les jeux de pouvoir, les valeurs et les croyances constituent un ensemble de relations fabriquant les discours des différents groupes et classes dans un territoire touristique. Ces discours modèlent, à travers des pratiques matérielles, l’espace touristique. Il démontre que l’enchevêtrement de ces relations complexe dans l’étude de cas réalisé sur l’Île-à-Vache. En fait, le « confort existentiel » que recherche le touriste y joue un rôle essentiel. Il influence le discours hégémonique des acteurs dominants et dicte les décisions d’aménagement des destinations touristiques. Dans le cadre de la production et de la mise en tourisme de l’Île-à-Vache, il permet d’expliquer le mécanisme des d’accumulation capitalistique par dépossession dans le processus de développement géographique inégal.

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Sadais Jeannite; Dominic Lapointe. La production de l’espace touristique de l’Île-à-Vache (Haïti) : illustration du processus de développement géographique inégal. Études caribéennes 2016, 1 .

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Sadais Jeannite, Dominic Lapointe. La production de l’espace touristique de l’Île-à-Vache (Haïti) : illustration du processus de développement géographique inégal. Études caribéennes. 2016; (33-34):1.

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Sadais Jeannite; Dominic Lapointe. 2016. "La production de l’espace touristique de l’Île-à-Vache (Haïti) : illustration du processus de développement géographique inégal." Études caribéennes , no. 33-34: 1.

Journal article
Published: 25 November 2015 in VertigO
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Les littoraux du fleuve St-Laurent sont au cœur de l’attractivité touristique du Québec, mais sont aussi des espaces qui seront fortement touchés par les changements climatiques. C’est donc à partir d’une approche basée sur une conceptualisation tripartite de l’espace que l’article analyse les représentations de l’espace à partir de deux discours étatiques que sont la stratégie de mise en valeur du Saint-Laurent touristique et la stratégie d’adaptation aux changements climatiques. Cette approche s’intéresse à la manière par laquelle les acteurs « problématisent » l’adaptation aux changements climatiques dans les deux stratégies à l’étude, de façon à mieux comprendre les convergences et les divergences d’intérêts, les alliances et les oppositions qui permettent d’éclairer les problèmes de mise en œuvre.

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Dominic Lapointe; Bruno Sarrasin; Alexis Guillemard. Changements climatiques et mise en tourisme du fleuve St-Laurent au Québec. VertigO 2015, 1 .

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Dominic Lapointe, Bruno Sarrasin, Alexis Guillemard. Changements climatiques et mise en tourisme du fleuve St-Laurent au Québec. VertigO. 2015; (Hors-série):1.

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Dominic Lapointe; Bruno Sarrasin; Alexis Guillemard. 2015. "Changements climatiques et mise en tourisme du fleuve St-Laurent au Québec." VertigO , no. Hors-série: 1.