TY - JOUR KW - cooperation KW - heritage legitimation KW - Heritagisation KW - intangible heritage KW - Local development KW - owners KW - Rural heritage AU - A. Bourdin AU - T. Wan AU - P. Delbos AB - The relationship between heritage and rural development takes place within the heritage making process. It presents different characteristics of what exists in urban context, especially through the role that can play the built heritage in the reception of the tourists. The study of the case of a French department, the Gers, characterised by an important intangible heritage linked to gastronomy and agriculture, but away from the major flows of mass tourism, reveals three major criteria for success: the importance of organising an actor’s network that gathers the world of local economy, tourism and heritage, in conjunction with local authorities; the existence of a strong legitimation structure that justifies these links. In France it was developed from a scientific approach: that of rural ethnology; the inscription in a temporality which allows successive stages and which is as much that of the local development project as that of the patrimonial action itself. DO - 10.1186/BF03545725 M1 - 2 N1 - Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V. N2 - The relationship between heritage and rural development takes place within the heritage making process. It presents different characteristics of what exists in urban context, especially through the role that can play the built heritage in the reception of the tourists. The study of the case of a French department, the Gers, characterised by an important intangible heritage linked to gastronomy and agriculture, but away from the major flows of mass tourism, reveals three major criteria for success: the importance of organising an actor’s network that gathers the world of local economy, tourism and heritage, in conjunction with local authorities; the existence of a strong legitimation structure that justifies these links. In France it was developed from a scientific approach: that of rural ethnology; the inscription in a temporality which allows successive stages and which is as much that of the local development project as that of the patrimonial action itself. SP - 24 EP - 36 TI - Tourism and Rural Heritage: A Win-Win Relation? The Conditions of Heritage Making in Touristic Rural Regions UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85117203161&doi=10.1186%2fBF03545725&partnerID=40&md5=03650dc0ae30b8ed1eb07cceb2a83512 VL - 3 SN - 20963041 (ISSN) ER -