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Working in “holidayland”

Understanding health determinants of restaurant workers in the touristic context. The case of Mallorca island
Thibaud Szpyrka
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Travailler au « pays des vacances » [fr]

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1A certain part of tourism studies approaches the aspect of the lived space by the resident population. Among them, some studies are focused on the potentials difficulties to live in “the holiday country”. (Delaplace & Simon, 2017; Urbain, 2002; Duhamel et al., 1998). Furthermore, very few research studies are questioning the possible difficulty to work in the “holiday country”, at least in geography. Some studies of sociology or of anthropology deal with this topic (Gentil, 2013; Boirot, 2022). But most of them are only focused on seasonal workers or on working conditions in the working place. This article proposes a method to read health and quality of life of restaurants workers in the touristic place of Mallorca, in Balearic Islands, in Spain. This doctoral research starts with the observation of the invisibility of health of local population, if tourism workers in this case, in touristic planification (Fleuret & Jouault, 2018).

2What are the socio-spatials characteristics of the touristic place of Mallorca which can affect health and well-being of tourism workers? To answer this question, restaurant workers are used as a prism of tourism workers.

3Some elements of response to this question are proposed in this article by the results of a field investigation of seven months in Mallorca Island, in Spain. This field investigation is based on direct observation method (Arborio & Fournier, 2021) and the conduct of semi-directive interviews. This qualitative study is based on an analytical framework which represent a socio-spatial frame of reference to analyze health of restaurant workers in touristic context. This analytical framework is built with literature and more specifically with the list of health determinants. The process of this field investigation takes place in a specific context of reactivation of tourism activity after confinement due to Covid 19 pandemic, in which the lack of workers in service industry, especially in touristic places, is more and more problematic.

Figure 1: Analytical framework for analyzing the health of restaurant workers in a tourist context

Figure 1: Analytical framework for analyzing the health of restaurant workers in a tourist context
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Thibaud Szpyrka, « Working in “holidayland” »Revue francophone sur la santé et les territoires [En ligne], Tourisme, Mobilités et Santé, mis en ligne le 17 juillet 2024, consulté le 15 juillet 2025. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/rfst/2187 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/12a5k

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Thibaud Szpyrka

ATER à l'ESTHUA Université d'Angers - Laboratoire ESO Angers - 6590

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