Quels rôles jouent les labels dans le développement du tourisme durable ?

Abstract

For many years the touristic offer has been becoming more and more sustainable to meet the current challenges of our society. This work is dedicated to the study of the roles of the label in the touristic sector.

The first part of the work will consist in reviewing on the one hand the different impacts of the non-sustainable tourism and on the other hand the different components of the issue: the sustainable tourism and the roles of the label.

The second part of the work will compare the roles identified in the literature to what really happens in the Walloon territory.

In order to do so, a first study will consist in qualitative interviews with people working in the sector, with the aim to deepen the observations made in the literature review. These interviews will notably question the confidence in the ecological approaches carried out and the guiding role that the label can play. Another qualitative study will then help to decipher the perception of hosters about the role of the label.

Eventually, the last part of the work will bring a conclusion that will not only synthesize the results obtained through the study, but will also highlight its limits. Moreover, the conclusion will also serve as a tool for further relevant research avenues.