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Realities and singularities of Reunionese tourism : between utopia and hopes
Tourist potentialities of Reunion Island are diversified and, relating to the prevailing view, favourable to the intense spectacle. Yet, in a tourist planning perspective, in line with the socio-economical stakes of the island, they seems to be underestimated, as the recent tourist conference held in 2008 indicated. Considering the opening-up of the island, its quality of services as well as the local synergy, one could observe a kind of hiatus. If many people gradually consider that Reunion Island is stammering its tourism activity, the new opportunity is that local and national political stakeholders, as well as the people working in the tourist industry, become aware of the problem. A plan of stimulation of the tourist sector takes place nowadays. It tries to combine the different local sensibilities. To reach an effective politic of tourism, Reunion Island needs to conserve its authenticity, mobilize and unify its actors and embarks itself in an integrated and controlled investment.

Following in Defos du Rau's footsteps : Cilaos (1956-2008).
Return to Cilaos is a geographical echo of the article by Jean Defos du Rau, published in 1956 by the Cahiers d'Outre-Mer. It offers two itineraries. The first pursues an epistemological path with the aim of exposing the geography of one of the islands three cirques found in the hill country of La Reunion as related by Defos du Rau. This is an opportunity to understand Defos du Rau's attentive but often rough insight into the the community of Petits-Blancs des Hauts (Reunion Islanders of white extraction) and the future of their environment. The second itinerary traces the evolution between 1956 and 2008 and will attempt to answer the question posed by Defos du Rau at the end of his article : can we still hope to save the cirque of Cilaos imperilled by its increasing demography ?

The country of origin, an advantage for products from Reunion island. In an era where globalization is increasing in overseas markets, some local brands have to promote their difference in advertisements communications compared with imported brands. A way of doing, is to favour consumers ethnocentrism and use the creole language in advertisement. The language of origin appears like a mean to inform about geographic's origin of product and to differ from imported brands.

Rodrigues « by texts » : writen and perceived landscapes.
Rodrigues island, the smallest and the most isolated of Mascareignes, present the interest to have been described, in detail and according to varied approaches, in various periods. We so restore the formation of the island landscapes, their perception and elements of their dynamics.