Project funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology, based at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
TravelconT is a logical sequence to ArTravel (project completed 2022).
It provides an opportunity to develop the research already begun. In fact, the point ArTravel arrives at coincides with TravelconT’s point of departure – a new stage built on the foundations of work already done with a common thread and a progressive, consequential but disruptive line advancing knowledge of the theme. Indeed the acronym correlates as if it were the same graphic script: global circulations within postcolonial studies.
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. As tourism is a worldwide activity with a huge impact on national GDPs, it is now a global phenomenon and transversal to a shared genealogy – colonial empires. This has acted as a catalyst for tourist flows in both directions: former colonial settlers visiting the old overseas geographies and the formerly colonised travelling as tourists to the old imperial centre in a dual dynamic whose perspective is extremely current.
Scope
Integrated development project within contemporary postcolonial mobility.
Importance/Relevance of Memory Tourism
- A means of constructing culture and defining identities;
- Heritage as the legacy of a shared past (memory) and a facilitator of the integration of tourism in history, thus becoming part of it.
