Effect of Leadership Proximity on Territorial Innovation: The Case of Vallue a Tourist Destination in Haiti

Abstract

The concept of territorial innovation, which evokes the transformation of relations between local actors and physical amenities for the development of a territory, is essential in the reflection on the tourist attraction. To analyze a territorial innovation is to present the socio-cultural, economic and geographical resources that are mobilized by an individual or collective actors. This text maintains that territorial innovation is part of a very broad process of networking tourism operators and their projects with a view to creating a pole of competitiveness. As a result, we resume that there exists a functional proximity which allows the leader in the necessary space in which to perform effective innovative work emotional buffer zones which will enable him to maintain the ability to see clearly and make rational. After discussing approaches to the development of territoriality tourism, we throw the theoretical foundations of the notion of territorial innovation, linked to that of tourist attractiveness, before concluding with the analysis of the process of putting Vallue in tourism in Petit-Goave, in its forks and ruptures leading to cooperative or conflicting innovations.