Specialised Centralities of Outdoor Sports: Global Hotspots, Modest Tourist Developments

The article introduces the notion of “specialised centrality” to denote places where tourist activity is based on a specific – outdoor sports in case under study here. This offers complement territorial models tourism, as it identifies small clusters that do not fit into either category resorts or dispersed tourism. takes account both spatial characteristics these and way which they are practised. paper field research carried out major hotspots sport illustrated particular with Haute-Durance basin.The different dimensions specialised centralities outlined: material qualities, symbolic values community co-presence. Examples particularly isolated presented order emphasise their modest terms territorialisation economic activity. However, ways integrated fabric territory also evoked.The concludes by discussing how perspective helps refine understanding relationship between practices developments, consolidates analyses “presential” economy territories.