'Ia ora na e maeva, Bienvenue sur le site web du CETOP

| TRIBUNE | Le CETOP (Centre d'Etudes du Tourisme en Océanie-Pacifique) se réjouit de pouvoir vous accueillir sur ce site internet consacré à l'étude du tourisme dans la région Océanie-Pacifique.

 

'Ia ora na, manava e maeva !

 

Aloha,

Ni sa Bula Vinaka,

Talofa lava,

Kia orana,

Malo e lelei,

Fakatalofa atu,

Malo ni,

Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā tatou katoa,

 

Bienvenue,

 

Welcome,

We are pleased to make the Research Center on Tourism in Oceania-Pacific (CETOP) website available to you.

This brand new place of reflection and study aims to help tourism stakeholders in French Polynesia by providing data and tools for in-depth understanding, or even anticipation, of tourist phenomena. This is the reason why our geographical field of study is not limited to French Polynesia. It is intended to be broader in order to observe situations encountered by territories that are admittedly competing but which, in many ways, are similar to ours. This field of study even goes beyond the Pacific since the tourist clientele is global. If our geographic space is large, so are the privileged disciplines.

CETOP is a tourism observatory within the Governance and Insular Development (GDI) laboratory of the Law, Economy and Management department of the University of French Polynesia (UPF).

Despite its roots, CETOP integrates researchers interested in various disciplines : marketing, digital social networks, economics, strategy, sociology and anthropology. We are a recent team which is already showing its dynamism through its scientific production, its studies in progress and the partnerships that it has been able to develop through international exchanges. We are around twenty researchers working on tourism.

CETOP is based in Tahiti but our research partners come from the USA, Asia, New Zealand, France and England.

The government of French Polynesia has an ambitious goal for tourism: 300,000 visitors eventually. Our goal is to support this development through research and reflection with government authorities and professionals in the sector.

This website is therefore aimed at a wide audience : lecturers, researchers, individuals, professionals in the sector or students. One of our objectives is to sensitize the students to the benefits of tourism. Many of them are now directing their master thesis on this industry.

The objective is not only to interest young Polynesians in tourism but also to motivate them to develop their careers in this field.

 

We thank our partners, the Ministry of Tourism and Labor, in charge of relations with institutions and the University of French Polynesia who give us the means to achieve our ambitions.

 

Pierre GHEWY

Co-founder of the CETOP