Electra 3 / edited by António Guerreiro.

Lisboa : fundação EDP, 2019.

192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm

Tourism and its impacts on city life and on the landscape, culture and economy of host countries is the focus of the third issue of Electra. Geographer Álvaro Domingues traces the long history of the tourism phenomenon; French urban planner Thierry Paquot defends the disruption of the growing movement of world tourism; António Baião and António Pedro Marques analyse so-called 'ethical tourism'; economist and researcher Álvaro Matias reveals the numbers to examine the impacts of the tourism economy; French sociologist and ethnologist Jean-Didier Urbain discusses the figure of the tourist and the experience of the trip; and architect Pedro Bismarck reflects on the effects of tourism on the contemporary city through a critical perspective of political economy.

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Urban tourism.
Architecture and tourism.
Tourisme urbain.
Architecture et tourisme.

Guerreiro, António, 1959- editor.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 306368
Cote: BIB 251961
Statut: Disponible