Create and insert a multi disciplinary research team in the network (particularly from the Unité Mixte de Recherche with the CNRS of Laboratory Espaces and Société and from the laboratory Groupe de Recherche Angevine en Economie et Management), which will be comparable with the largest international research centers in terms of scale, by developing the excellence, the insertion into the network and the links with the enterprises

The principal expected results in 2020 are:

• A double of research team scale (equivalent to a team with 60 teacher-researchers, researchers and doctors)
• The creation of a research federation in Tourism of Grand West
• An internationally leading achievement thanks to the partnership rooted in Asia and Northern America.

The scientific projects are based on 3 topics of research:

• Accessibility to the tourism in emerging societies
• Diversification of behaviors, local strategies and organizational management
• Economic and touristic valuation of culture and heritage

It is completed by 5 transversal themes:

• The territory and the impact of tourism in terms of structuration
• The digital technology, the new usages and the self-developed tools
• The mobility and the transport
• The human resources
• The optimization of the value of enterprises and territory.

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