Sustainable development of mountain resorts: inventory and prospect

Abstract

For a long time, the development of winter sports resorts settles is concerned by the question of environmental protection. With the advent of the concept of sustainable development and the uncertainties of the climate change, the initiatives claiming their will to perpetuate the local savings by the sustainable tourism multiply. The authors suggest us revising the main questions of research relative to the durability of winter sports resorts. They demonstrate the importance of the social and economic dimensions in the implementation for concrete actions to facilitate a sustainable development of the mountain territories.