Tourisme « patrimonial » et mémoire : les sites industriel et agricole de Beauport et la Grivelière (Guadeloupe)

• Main Author: Jean-Marie Breton
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Université des Antilles 2017-11-01
• Series: Études Caribéennes
• Subjects: heritage; valorization; local sustainable development; memory tourism; scientific tourism; alternative tourism
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/etudescaribeennes/11137

The preservation and sustainable use of cultural heritage, especially historical (and, incidentally, scientific) heritage, and its introduction into tourism for the benefit of leisure and discovery activities, give rise to new forms and fuel new offers of tourism, called “alternatives”, on which they rely in return.The historical heritage of Guadeloupe, both agricultural and industrial, which has long been untouched and now being rediscovered and restored, is a significant example of this, as it is in other Caribbean territories and countries. It illustrates their potentialities while justifying the expectations that are attached to them in terms of local development both tourism and more general.Recognition of the heritage value and cultural interest of the sites concerned, however, is a relatively recent phenomenon, through their safeguarding and rehabilitation. Their valorisation and their opening to the public go hand in hand with their exploitation in favor of a tourism of memory marked by a strong pedagogical connotation.