Abstract
Entendido como forma particular de viajar, voluntária e temporária, que organiza um calendário social, o turismo é um equivalente funcional e simbólico das instituições que conferiam significado à vida pré-secularizada; uma "viagem sagrada" que busca entretenimento e ou conhecimento em outros lugares, conforta sentidos de identidade e ou realiza estratégias de distinção . É também uma prática social dinâmica, constituída e constituinte de reconfigurações dos contextos políticos e económicos, territoriais e tecnológicos, sociais e culturais. Pensar em um fenómeno turístico particular impõe, por isso, considerar flutuações entre representações, projetos e práticas mais amplos. Falar do Hotel de Santa Luzia também. O seu programa oito-novecentista de vilegiatura para elites portuguesas e estrangeiras foi discursiva e materialmente nacionalizado pelo Estado Novo, acabando por integrar a rede Pousadas de Portugal, já em contexto democrático. No curso do tempo, os valores que foram o princípio da sua modernidade converteram-se em passado. As diferentes modalidades de pensar e fazer turismo no Hotel espacializam, assim, uma história do turismo português que confirma a natureza processual e até ambígua dos seus processos culturais e práticas sociais.
Seen a particular way of voluntary and temporary travelling which organizes a social calendar, tourism is a functional and symbolic equivalent of the institutions that conferred meaning to life before secularization; a “sacred journey” seeking entertainment and/or knowledge, soothing senses of identity and/ or effecting strategies of distinction (Graburn, 1978, citado em Smith, p. 17-33). It is also a dynamic social practice, constituent of and composed by reconfigurations of different political, economic, territorial, technological, social and cultural contexts. Considering a particular tourism phenomenon therefore imposes a reflection on ampler fluctuations between representations, projects and practices. This also applies when talking about the Hotel de Santa Luzia. Its nineteenth century vacation programme for Portuguese and foreign elites was nationalized by the Estado Novo both in discourse and materialization, eventually integrating, once in a democratic context, the Pousadas de Portugal network. Over time, the values sparking off its modernity have become something of the past. Different ways of thinking and making tourism in the Hotel so spatialize a history of Portuguese tourism, confirming the processual and even ambiguous nature of its cultural and social practices.
Seen a particular way of voluntary and temporary travelling which organizes a social calendar, tourism is a functional and symbolic equivalent of the institutions that conferred meaning to life before secularization; a “sacred journey” seeking entertainment and/or knowledge, soothing senses of identity and/ or effecting strategies of distinction (Graburn, 1978, citado em Smith, p. 17-33). It is also a dynamic social practice, constituent of and composed by reconfigurations of different political, economic, territorial, technological, social and cultural contexts. Considering a particular tourism phenomenon therefore imposes a reflection on ampler fluctuations between representations, projects and practices. This also applies when talking about the Hotel de Santa Luzia. Its nineteenth century vacation programme for Portuguese and foreign elites was nationalized by the Estado Novo both in discourse and materialization, eventually integrating, once in a democratic context, the Pousadas de Portugal network. Over time, the values sparking off its modernity have become something of the past. Different ways of thinking and making tourism in the Hotel so spatialize a history of Portuguese tourism, confirming the processual and even ambiguous nature of its cultural and social practices.
Translated title of the contribution | The Hotel of Santa Luzia: from modern to past in Portuguese tourism |
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Original language | Multiple languages |
Title of host publication | Santa Luzia: |
Subtitle of host publication | Olhares Plurais |
Place of Publication | Viana do Castelo |
Publisher | Confraria de Santa Luzia |
Pages | 145-179 |
Number of pages | 35 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-972-9649-82-0 |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- Turismo
- Portugal