On this first day of summer, with some already dream of diving in the deep blue sea and lazy days in the shade of an umbrella pine. Others, on the contrary, they yearn to return to the benches of the school. In France, workshops, and internships are multiplying. Manual work, technical well-being or writing, introduction to life in the wild… The holidays have become synonymous with travel-discoveries rhyming, often with domestic travel. If the trend is not new, the containment has been strengthened. This not surprising in Florian Mannaioni, creator and coordinator of the collective Oseraie possible (oseraiedupossible.fr). “I was 27 years old when I started in basketry, eleven years ago. It was crazy for someone my age. Today, the interest in crafts grew up with the desire to go back to basics.” Its collective brings together thirty weavers whose fifteen courses across France. In two days, one learns how to weave the plants and it leaves the basket under the arm. “The interns come oxygenate the head. Wicker refers to the ancestral gestures, linking the past and the present, with a few things: ten fingers, a young shoot, a billhook and pruning shears. Wicker, it is the nature, the living. Basket-weaving soothes and reconnects to the material.”

The craft found new life with the younger generation

Biberonné to the internet, and lovers of the workshops with the smells of wood and motor oil, Edward Eyglunent, 31 years old, was co-founded in 2017 the internet platform WeCanDoo (wecandoo.fr). Various courses with five hundred artisans are available in ten cities and surroundings (soon to be 14). Dusted, the craft goes to the 2.0 era. In a few hours or several days, the participants produce a piece of jewellery, a guitar or a skateboard-board from A to Z. And in the Ardèche, in his home surrounded by chestnut trees, Benjamin Gaumard, former assistant to the fashion designer Kenzo Takada, is proposing a cabinet-making workshop. “We share a tea raw walnut wood to make a coffee table. In the beginning, people were scared of the machines, and then they gain confidence in themselves. They are often surprised by the finishing of their furniture,” he says. All for 770 € for a couple, one night’s accommodation and meals included. In 2019, WeCanDoo hosted 50 .000 trainees. Airbnb, it was said, knocked on their door – remained closed to this day.

The holidays are a time when we can afford the time and luxury to learn something

Laurent Queige

“The containment has driven us to examine ourselves, note Laurent Queige, director of Welcome City Lab, an incubator for start-up dedicated to tourism in France. However, the holidays are a time when we can afford the time and luxury to learn something in the field that you want. A lot of regions have understood that, in particular Burgundy, the back-country of Occitania or in Rhône-Alpes. I translate almost in terms of a slogan: “Come to us to find out about you, you.” Authenticity and the local are very popular.” Welcome City Lab is associated to the platform #ExploreParis featuring tours and workshops in the capital and the small crown. The all out of the tourist routes and accompanied by “carriers of culture”, the artists of street art, stonemasons, brewers of beer…

Would this be the end of the holiday contemplative ?The time of a weekend at the abbey of Aubazine in Corrèze, Hildegard has to come immerse yourself in this place full of history to discover and learn to use the plants that nature offers us. Echappées Wild

Can-be. Now, to discover a territory, it opens up more than ever in his nostrils and we are looking to two times the weeds. The stinging nettle is a valuable and delicious in jams, we learn from Laurence Talleux, aka Hildegarde, at the origin of Echappées wild. “She was full of virtues, like many plants, she said. Our grandparents lived with nature, but their knowledge is extinguished after the Second world War. I try to re-submit.” Hildegard organises training of five days at the abbey of Aubazine in Corrèze, and when hiking and travelling. “Eating wild plants that are picked and cooked by our care, it is strong. It is even more so around a camp fire in the middle of nature. There is something that speaks to the guts. Around the flames, people reveal themselves. I have seen big changes in life. Once, an intern, highly-placed in a big, national company, returned home and two days later he resigned and was leaving his paris apartment… The nature shows us the essential and allows us to reconnect to ourselves.”

hiking is dedicated to astronomy

More thoughtful is the conversion of Benjamin Chareyron, a musician in the Orchestra of the Opéra national de Paris. It takes full advantage of his vacation to do an internship in different farms in the WWOOF France. Born in the 1970s in England, this movement-now international offers volunteers to assist farmers and to initiate know-how and modes of life biological against the bed and covered. “I am surprised by a farmer in a bio, says the musician. This is a business critical, hard and demanding, with a heavy mental workload, but the pay lousy. The farmers are barely able to live.” The future farmer can already imagine other sources of income. “With the WWOOF, we learn on the ground. The important among us is that human relationships without monetary exchange, underlines Cécile Paturel, coordinator for France of the organization. This approach appeals to profiles of more and more varied.”

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But no need to go physically to learn the nature. With the small agency Azimut Trip, the donkeys carry the bags during a hike dedicated to astronomy in the park of the Cevennes, recently dubbed the international Reserve of a starry sky. We scour the earth as the sky, in a simple way, with a mountain guide and a specialist in the Planetarium of Montpellier. “Twelve years ago, to the creation of the agency, I had the impression of being innovative and ahead of schedule, especially on the ecology part,” notes Gaëlle Lime. Ever since, people have changed their way of life, power and so of vacation mode. With an appetite very safe for nature and knowledge. The holidays promise to be happy. And studious.

see also : The national Park of the Cevennes, the mountains in perfectthe “The crisis highlighted the importance of the proximity tourism, local”Caroline Couret is the founder of the Creative Tourism Network. Creative Tourism / Photo press

Caroline Couret is the founder of the Creative Tourism Network, an international network that promotes the creative tourism. His expertise has assisted many destinations (Barcelona, Tuscany…) and supported by the world tourism Organization, Unesco or the world Bank.

LE FIGARO. – The holiday contemplative would they place to vacation in more “intelligent”?

Caroline COURET. – that’s right. This way of “travel smart” exists since a long time and moves it on the Grand Tour (trip to “education” of the british aristocracy, developed from the mid-Eighteenth century, editor’s NOTE). In the 2000s, professors Greg Richards and Crispin Raymond have theorized the concept of “creative tourism”, or creative tourism, by identifying a profile of travellers keen to develop their creativity at a workshop or an experience typical of a local culture. They were ahead of the reflection of a societal change. The creative tourism is not a fad or a marketing strategy but an evolution. The tourist, the seasoned and informed, turns now to the travels that have meaning, ethical, and human. The interest, finally, is not so much the destination but the way to be able to discover it.

The tourist, the seasoned and informed, turns now to the travels that have meaning, ethical, and human.

Caroline Couret

how creative tourism can help destinations to differentiate from others?

It is providing new opportunities for emerging destinations or more mature seeking to reinvent itself. All have a rich intangible heritage that is undervalued. By focusing on their DNA and culture at the zero kilometer, they create a circular economy and distinguish it from others. We assist you in developing with them travel experiences that are authentic, creative, and fun without falling into the “folklorization”. Some destinations manage to recreate their DNA in relation to very different activities. In France, Biot, for example, we can learn the art of blown glass, transforming a piece of jewelry or old to make his bread at a workshop of an hour, a day or a week.

The crisis of the Covid is she going to amplify even more the need for creative tourism?

Very definitely. The crisis has generated a general sense, a genuine passion for creative activities. It has resulted in a strong desire to share experiences in small groups, not far from home. Finally, it has highlighted the importance of tourism to the nearby local. Creative tourism enables us to rediscover a region under a new angle while supporting the local economy. He enrolled in the sustainability and away from mass tourism.

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It is necessary to stop the bullshit and think to make like Marie Antoinette and want to live like peasants when we are bourgeois or city dweller… You can’t have the butter and the butter’s money, and la crémière bonus. When I hear that the bobos have lodged a complaint against the roosters of the village who woke up on Saturday and Sunday mornings, or against the bells of the churches, and that magistrates have dared to teach this kind of complaints instead of the classify without continuation, I am shocked. Then stop wanting to idealize a world that has fought to get out of the daily difficulties of rural life.

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