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- 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.
- Fort Jesus: guiding the past and contesting the present in KenyaPublication . Sarmento, JoãoThis paper focuses on the interpretation of Fort Jesus, Kenya, a late sixteenth century Portuguese-built fort, and attempts to discuss its significance in the region and in the country, and its role within the context of recent tourism development in Kenya. By exploring the ways in which a sample of local tourist guides engage with tourists and with the heritage and memory that Fort Jesus represents in this coastal region, some of the challenges facing tourism development in post-colonial Kenya are analysed. While the study reveals that the guides are not a homogeneous group, one of the shared positions is their resentfulness towards the inability of the coastal region to control and benefit from tourism. At the same time, despite some of the guides revealing to be skilful cultural mediators, the vast majority construct their mediation upon a predominantly colonial knowledge of the Fort.
- Tourism in the global south: landscapes, identities and developmentPublication . Brito Henriques, Eduardo; Sarmento, JoãoThis book is the fourth of a series on ‘Tourism and Spatial Planning’ that the Centre for Geographical Studies (CEG) research group ‘Tourism, Culture and Space’ (TERRiTUR) has published: ‘Tourism, Innovation and Development’ (2008), ‘Niche Tourism’ (2009) and ‘Water and Tourism. Resources Management, Planning and Sustainability’ (2010). Our first acknowledgement is to our fellow contributors, who courteously and promptly responded to our requests, and who have provided the bulk of this book. There are also many other colleagues at CEG who contributed in various ways. We would like to acknowledge the support of José Manuel Simões, head of our research group ‘Tourism, Culture and Space’, and of Diogo Abreu, head of the Centre for Geographical studies. We are equally grateful to all those colleagues who have refereed the chapters contained in this volume, whose name remains anonymous for the purpose of maintaining integrity.
- When water meets tourism: an introductionPublication . Brito Henriques, Eduardo; Sarmento, João; Lousada, Maria Alexandre