Une association de tourisme social face à la professionnalisation du secteur : Tourisme et Travail

<p style="text-align: justify;">Tourisme et Travail, a nonprofit tourism organization affiliated with the labor movement, has been at a crossroads between activism and professionalization, the labor movement and the tourism market. Since the start, there has been an ambiguity about the organization based on its combining the characteristics of a voluntary movement with the technical aspects of a service organization. However, professionalization grew in tandem with an entrepreneurial drive in the 1970s. The 1980s signalled both the peak of this evolution and a deep crisis in Tourisme et Travail, which has to be seen in the context of the wider problems facing nonprofits in the sector. This experience and these problems raise the issue of a French model for a union of social enterprises.</p>