Boîte à outils numériques

L’appli contribue à l’explosion de ce tourisme de masse extrême qui abîme des sites naturels. La photographe Natacha de Mahieu a illustré ce fléau qui touche les paysages “instagrammables”, des gorges de l’Ardèche jusqu’au désert des Bardenas, en Espagne.

Abstract: Geotagged photos posted on photo-sharing platforms have recently become a new source of information for analysing landscape preferences and investigating the aesthetic dimension of cultural ecosystem services. Most studies seek to explain photo density by landscape or spatial characteristics that might account for individual preferences and aesthetic criteria favoured by photographers. We focus instead on a “panorama level” of analysis, based on the assumption that photos represent preferential directions within a given panorama. The analysis consists in comparing the content of the photographed views with the content of the antipodal views (i.e. the view at 180°). We apply this method to a set of Flickr photos taken in the Lake Geneva region (Switzerland and France) characterised by landscape descriptors based on a visibility modelling approach.

Writer, Alice Doleman shares some of the key takeaways from our recent panel session looking at the issue of overtourism.

Before opening up to the panel, Cuffe discusses the term, overtourism, which occurs when there are too many visitors to a destination, and where the infrastructure of said destination is not designed to handle those visitors. Resulting in overcrowding, environments becoming degraded, and locals being forced from their homes.