| Código |
18076
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| Ano |
1
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| Semestre |
S1
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| Créditos ECTS |
6
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| Carga Horária |
OT(30H)/TP(30H)
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| Área Científica |
Arquitetura
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Learning outcomes |
Understanding contemporary tourism and its paradoxes: decoding tourism as a multidimensional phenomenon; (Re)thinking
Designing the Future with Data and the SDGs - Relating tourism to the challenges of global sustainability: Critically analyzing the phenomena of urban transformation linked to tourism; strategies and policies for tourism; developing critical tools for ethical and innovative tourism;
be able to think, discuss, and produce ideas/policies/solutions that enable the design of destinations, debate the future of tourist destinations, seeking to empower students for proactive, conscious, and informed professional and civic practice.
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Syllabus |
Module 1: Origin and evolution of tourism; relationship with the urban environment: beginnings, Grand Tour, mass tourism. The democratization of travel and the role of transportation. The city as a destination: early tourist flows and infrastructure.
Module 2: Cities in transformation—their origins and evolution—tourism and architecture. The pre-tourist city vs. the tourist city. Impacts on urban design: rehabilitation, museumification, scenarization. The role of architecture in creating the tourist image.
Module 3: Paradoxes of contemporary tourism. Economic development vs. cultural erosion. Authenticity vs. spectacularization. Overtourism vs. desertification of the interior. Gains vs. losses for local communities.
Module 4: Sustainability, policies, and strategies. SDGs 8, 11, and 12 – carrying capacity and limits to growth, planning, slow travel, best practices, populations, conflicts/disputes over the city.
Module 5: The future – laboratory of ideas.
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Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria |
A avaliação da unidade curricular, lecionada online, assenta em dois momentos complementares.
Avaliação Contínua (50%), materializada num Portefólio Digital Individual.
Trabalho final individual sobre um destino à escolha e de acordo com o tema/objetivo proposto - 50%.
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Main Bibliography |
Fusté-Forné, F., & Hussain, A. (Eds.). (2025). The Routledge handbook of regenerative tourism. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003469812
. Gravari-Barbas, M., & Guinand, S. (Eds.). (2025). Handbook on tourism gentrification. Edward Elgar Publishing.
. Pechlaner, H., Innerhofer, E., & Philipp, J. (Eds.). (2024). From overtourism to sustainability governance: A new tourism era. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003365815
. Sharma, V. C., Dua, S., Tyagi, P. K., & Tarsi, E. (Eds.). (2025). Architectural vision of overtourism. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-5793-3
. Varghese, B., & Sandhya, H. (Eds.). (2025). Advancing smart tourism through analytics. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-3715-8
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| Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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