French: système touristiqueEnglish translation: tourism system 
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Social Sciences - Geography / Butler's destination life cycle | | French term or phrase: système touristique | "A une période d’exploration durant laquelle un «découvreur» investit un espace encore inconnu dans son aire géographique d’origine, succède une phase d’implication qui voit la mise en place progressive d’un système touristique."
Referring to Butler's model for tourist destination life cycles. What would be the best translation for 'système touristique' in this context? |
| | | development of a tourism system | Explanation:
Butler made no attempt to hide the fact that his model was built on the ideas of Christaller, Plog , Cohen & Doxey. He also linked his theory to the business/marketing concept of product life-cycle. In summary, the product life-cycle is a theory in which sales of a new product are seen to slowly grow and then experience rapid growth, before stabilizing and subsequently declining. When this is applied to tourist destinations, the model suggests that resorts develop and change over time and there are a number of linked stages:
Exploration
Involvement
Development
Consolidation
Stagnation
Post-stagnation
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The Tourism System consists of four parts – Market, Travel, Destination, and Marketing. The decision to travel or become a tourist can be understood by an ...
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This falls into the four initial stages envisaged by Butler's model. |
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