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- Overland tourism in the Istanbul to Cairo route: ‘real holidays’ or McDonaldised niche tourism?Publication . Sarmento, João; Brito-Henriques, EduardoSince the beginning of the 1990s tourism scholars and academics have been claiming that tourism has changed. By and large the mid-1980s is generally considered the moment when that transformation occurred, or, at least, when it became noticeable. Urry (1990), one of earliest theorists who lead this debate, built an all-inclusive theory which frames the new trends in the tourism industry in the broader context of social transformations in the ‘Late Capitalism’ period, and consequently, tourism has been repeatedly considered to have changed because new forms of post-Fordist (or post-Modern) consumption have emerged [...]
- Tourism in the global south: heritages, identities and developmentPublication . Sarmento, João; Brito-Henriques, EduardoThis book intends to discuss new research ideas on the tourism impacts in the Global South, focusing namely on the construction and transformation of landscapes through tourism, on issues of identity friction and cultural change, and on the responsibility of tourism on poverty reduction and sustainable development. A proper analysis of tourism impacts always needs an interdisciplinary approach. Geography can conduct a stimulating job since it relates culture and nature, society and environment, space, economy and politics, but a single discipline cannot push our understanding very far without intersecting it with other realms of knowledge. So, this is a book that aims at a multidisciplinary debate, celebrating the diversity of disciplinary boundaries, and which includes texts from and people from a range of different backgrounds such as Geography, Tourism, Anthropology, Architecture, Cultural Studies, Linguistics and Economics.
- Urban ruination: suspended projects in Guimarães, PortugalPublication . Sarmento, João; Brito-Henriques, Eduardo; Morgado, Paulo