Tourist experience, authenticities and agency: from simulacrum to dediferentiation

• Autor(a) principal: Joaquim, Graça
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Anais Brasileiros de Estudos Turísticos
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufjf.br/index.php/abet/article/view/41120
• topic: Experiência Turística; Autenticidades; Desdiferenciação; Área Metropolitana de Lisboa /AML; Lisboa; Touristic Experience; Authenticities; Dedifferentiation; Lisbon Metropolitan Area /LMA; Lisboa; Experiencia turística; Autenticidades; Desdiferenciación; Area Metropolitana de Lisboa/AML; Lisboa

The aim of this article is to present a reflection in the context of the development of the project "Innovation and Future: contributions on the design of the tourist offer in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area" (Lisboa-01-0145-Feder-023368), discussing in the light of the research results, the problematics of the representation of the city, the AML, tourism and the agency of the multiple actors, where the tourist experiences in these territories are strongly deficient in plural tourist experiences (Joaquim, 2015) and territorially deconcentrated and not integrated. The central methodological strategy was clearly based on intensive methodologies where techniques such as focus groups and in-depth interviews, aimed to work the singularities of the communities, their memories, their representations, their projects, their desires, essential for a development tourism, identity-based, crossing their memories, experiences and visions about the future. The results point to very contradictory representations about the city, the LMA and tourism according to the personal and territorial trajectories of the actors involved. However, a common trait is the absence of agency with regard to tourism, both among those who reject tourism, which is extraordinarily expressive in Lisbon, and among those who see it as a desirable development process in their municipalities. This article focuses on the former.