From Ford to the Olympics

In 2006, Sestriere played a leading role in the organization of the Torino Winter Olympic Games. The event was crucial to rethinking the city’s development model, which, since its foundation in 1934, hinged on two specific vocations: winter sports tourism and the close link with Torino, where the Agnelli family, the major force behind Sestriere’s foundation, had operated the FIAT auto factories since the Twenties. Because of these characteristics, Sestriere has long been an archetypal model of a ski resort, though it has received surprisingly little attention in the literature. In view of the deep-seated crisis that has made it necessary to move away from the traditional ski resort model, the paper uses a territorial perspective to investigate how Sestriere has evolved in response to the major periods of change in Alpine tourism. Our hypothesis is that the resort is at the center of a dense network of multi-scalar territorial relationships (with the city, with the surrounding towns, and with the major international flows), which at the same time provide a means of interpreting and analyzing the resort’s territoriality and a fundamental resource to be leveraged in rejuvenating its development models

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• Strategic success in winter sports destinations

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• Climate change and the development of mountain areas

  Open Access•Didier Richard, Emmanuelle George et al.•Revue de géographie alpine•2010

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• Pour un développement durable des stations de sports d'hiver

  Open Access•Antoine Bailly•Revue de géographie alpine•2002

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• Governance of mountain resorts in France

  Open Access•Françoise Gerbaux, Emmanuelle Marcelpoil•Revue de géographie alpine•2006

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• Du concept de station au concept de district

  Open Access•Luigi Gaido•Revue de géographie alpine•2002

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• Mythes, tourisme hivernal et aménagement de l'espace

  Open Access•J-P Guérin, Hervé Gumuchian•Revue de géographie alpine•1977

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• La territorialisation olympique

  Open Access•Egidio Dansero, Alfredo Mela•Revue de géographie alpine•2007

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• Le tourisme alpin

  Open Access•Andrea Macchiavelli•Revue de géographie alpine•2009

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• Logiques touristiques en station de haute-montagne

  Open Access•Laurent Arcuset•Revue de géographie alpine•2009

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• Gouvernance touristique des grandes stations et durabilité. Une lecture en termes de proximité

  Open Access•Emmanuelle Marcelpoil, Vincent Boudières•Développement durable et…•2006

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