Abstract EN:

Different forms of tourism have been growing in the micro Caribbean islands for about three decades now, offering long-term development options to its populations. Ln Guadeloupe, Dominica or Saint-John - one of the American Virgin Islands- we have singled out sorne tangible examples in order to study the true capacity of this new sustainable tourism concept of ensuring development through ecotourism. After identifying the island environment in the Caribbean and the Lesser Antilles through a global presentation of both the physical and human factors, we first managed to draw up a typology of the main interests, revealing the real value of the sites of the sites for each of the chosen settings. Then, as far as employment is concerned, we have put the emphasis on any potential long-term effects. The study has been carried out in such a way that the first stage tackled in the study's general section places the Caribbean on a worldwide level in global tourisrn, by accentuating its damaging consequence' on the environment. Furthermore, the tourism approach in the Lesser Antilles allows us to assess the 'given situation and consider the prospects of a sustainable and fair trade tourism in Guadeloupe. The last section concerns two islands close to Guadeloupe in the Lesser Antilles: Saint- John, the National Park land and Dominica, which is still characterized by its wild and untamed nature