_______________________________________________________________ Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território ▪ Edifício IGOT – R. Branca Edmée Marques 1600-276 LISBOA ▪ tel.: 21 044 3000

Academic Year: 2015/2016 Course: International Tourism Geography Coordinator: Eduardo Brito-Henriques Teaching Staff: Eduardo Brito-Henriques ECTS: 6 Weekly Hours: 2h Typology: TP - theoretical & practical

Contents 1. Tourism and globalization

a) Space-time compression, neo-liberalization and tourism; b) Dynamics of the global tourism demand and international tourist flows; b) Capital concentration and transnational corporations; c) New technologies, de-regulation, transports and tourism; d) Information revolution, CIT and tourism.

2. World tourism destionations in focus a) Southern Europe; b) China and Southeast Asia; b) Middle East and North Africa

3. Global-local tensions in tourist places a) Turistification and gentrification in the cities of North Global; b) Heritage tourism and ‘industry of nostalgy’: dissonance and conflits in places of memory; c) Tourism and post-colonialism: the commodification of the Other.

Objectives and skills This CU aims to discuss the relationship between tourism and globalization, providing information to students about the spatial organization of world tourism and developing a critical view on the tourism impacts on destination’ societies, cultures and places. The teaching methods are designed to stimulate the reflexivity and critical thinking, theory building based in case studies, and acquaintance with specialized scientific literature. To achieve these outcomes, participatory learning methods are central. Classes will work as reading and discussion fora, under the lecturer supervision. Students will be engaged in debates to increase their capacity for critical analysis and discussion.

References Burns, P. & Novelli, M. (Eds.). (2008). Tourism and Mobilities: Local–Global Connections. Wallingford & Cambridge, MA: CABI. Conrady, R. & Buck, M. (Eds.). (2011). Trends and Issues in Global Tourism. London & New York: Springer. Daher, R. F. (Ed.). (2007). Tourism in the Middle East: Continuity, Change and Transformation. Clevedon: Channel View Publications. Lew, A., Hall, C. A., & Williams, A. M. (Eds.). (2004). A Companion to Tourism. Malden, MA & Oxford: Blackwell. Pons, P. O., Crang, M., & Travlou, P. (Eds.). (2009). Cultures of Mass Tourism: Doing the Mediterranean in the Age of Banal Mobilities. Farnham: Ashgate. Sarmento J., & Brito-Henriques E. (Eds.). (2013). Tourism in the Global South: Heritages, Identities and Development. Lisbon: Centro de Estudos Geográficos. Shaw, G. & Williams, A. (2004). Tourism and Tourism Spaces. London & Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. Singh, T. V. (Ed.). (2012). Critical Debates in Tourism. Bristol & Tonawanda, NY: Channel View Publications. Winter, T., Teo, P. & Chang, T. C. (Eds.). (2009). Asia on Tour: Exploring the Rise of Asian Tourism. London & New York: Routledge.

Knowledge evaluation methods and their partial grades • Written essay (65%) • Oral discussion of texts and participation in debate (35%).