Agenda


3rd MISSION: Sri Lanka, Oct 2024

Research Mission
  1. Recognition of material and immaterial heritage of Portuguese influence (civil, military, administrative and religious architecture) and natural heritage;

  2. Presentation of the project at the University of Moratuwa, Department of Architecture, with the aim that the academy become part of the Alliance Route of the TravelconT project;

  3. Offer of one dozen travel books with a view to inspiring both reading and writing about local heritage.





2nd MISSION: São Tomé e Príncipe (STP), Jan/Feb 2024

1. Research Mission
  1. Research in Arquivo Histórico of STP;

  2. Recognition of material and immaterial heritage of Portuguese influence (civil, militar, administrative and religious architecture) and natural heritage;

  3. Presentation of the project and meeting with public institutions and private associations in order to create a network that will optimise synergies capable of giving leverage to a Tourism Alliance Route of bilateral scope. Namely, Courtesy meeting with the President of the Regional Government of Príncipe, Dr Filipe Nascimento, at the Official Residence in Santo António. The aim is for the region to become part of the Alliance Route of the TravelconT project.
Facebook's publication of the Regional Government, 6 February 2024
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2. Collaboration with local society
  1. Offer of 80 travel books with a view to inspiring both reading and writing local narratives and travels in institutions as:
    • S. Tomé Island: Portuguese Cultural Centre of the Camões Institute in the capital of São Tomé, National Library of São Tomé;
    • Principe Island: Portuguese Cultural Centre (Príncipe branch), Cultural Centre, Príncipe Foundation;

  2. Conference to present TravelconT and a talk entitled LiV: Livros, Investigação e Viagem [BRT: Books, Research and Travel] at the Príncipe Cultural Centre in the island’s capital, Santo António.

These actions will have a real impact as they promote a contest of creative writing for young people the goal of which is to collect the best locally-inspired stories and narratives, which will be published in a book in partnership with CACAU. This book will later be used as a differentiating resource for tourism on the island as well as a repository of memory for future generations



1st RESEARCH MISSION: Japan
In the year that marks the 480th anniversary of the arrival of the Portuguese to the island of Tanegashima in 1543, in an encounter that was the first one between the Europeans and the Japanese.

Jun 2023
  • Recognition of material and immaterial heritage of Portuguese influence in public-private collections;
  • Presentation of the project and meeting with potential partners in order to leverage synergies that will lead to the creation of a critical mass capable of integrating a Historical Route of bilateral scope. This collaboration will materialize both in articles and through participating in scientific meetings that will boost the Luso-Japanese theme in actions that will be held throughout the project.
  • Partnership:
    Lúcio de Sousa
    Professor of History, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Masters Course Unit - 10 ECTS




Elective option FCSH
2024-5 | 2nd academic semester
Timetable to be determined / 3 hours a week
10 February to 30 May





GOALS
  1. Acquisition of theoretical-practical skills about the history of travel and tourism within contemporary culture;
  2. To contribute to the creation of an integrated and comprehensive perspective of the tourism phenomenon through a historical, political, cultural and artistic framework;
  3. To identify and characterise cultural heritage (material and intangible) so as to boost responsible, sustainable and regenerative tourist travel with a positive and memorable impact within contemporary mobility;
  4. Reflect on the new challenges resulting from the current travel and global tourism phenomena that materialise through participant observation approaches.
ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS: Masters enrolment

SYLLABUS: This unit is offered as part of the project “TravelconT. The Crossroads of Contemporary Travel in Postcolonial Tourism”, a project whose objective is to map and reflect on tourist traffic from the point of view of Memory Tourism placing it within a critical discourse whose importance rests on an interdisciplinary methodological approach and research enhancing cross-border value and with a pluricontinental emphasis.

Programme:
  1. Travel
  2.  The Exotic in Modernity
  3.  Different Modes of Travelling
  4.  Six Geographies
  5.  Tourist Routes
  6.  World Heritage
  7.  Accomodation and Transport
  8.  Musealisation
  9.  Painting and Travel
  10. Sustainable-Regenerative
  11. Active Trends and Tendencies
  12. Emergent Perspectives
  13. Touristic Portugal
  14. Atlantic Islands
  15. Monuments
  16. Popular Ethnography and Culture
  17. Spas, Countryside and Beaches
  18. Parks and Nature
  19. Resources: Sea and Air
  20. Portuguese Heritage in the World
  21. Inclusive and Exclusive Tourism
  22. Tourism and Ruin
  23. Good Practice - a Typology
  24. Synthesis/Materialisation




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