Rumo ao Sul Mediterrânico: Turismo Alemão em Portugal

Authors

  • Maria João Alfaiate Correia Cordeiro ESTG/Instituto Plitécnico de Beja

Keywords:

German tourism, imaginary geography, South, Mediterranean, Europe.German tourism, Europe.

Abstract

The present article analyses Germany’s historical path that led to the self-proclaimed title of world champion in travel and tourism. It discusses the material and psychological conditions that determined the development of a mentality especially prone to travel; it also revisits German traditional tourist destinations, focusing, in particular, on the strong tourist German presence in Portugal over the last decades. German tourism is then related, in the light of a symbolic geography, to the construction of the space-myth (Schields, 1991) which was the first European holiday model: the Mediterranean. The article analyses how the European Mediterranean South became a privileged tourist destination and how Portugal appeared on that stage of the (northern) tourist imagination, marked by the mythological density of a ‘warm and bright South’, an idea of enormous relevance in the first tourist movements and still powerfully valid in contemporaneity.

Author Biography

  • Maria João Alfaiate Correia Cordeiro, ESTG/Instituto Plitécnico de Beja
    Adjunct Professor, PhD in Gerrman Studies/German Culture

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Published

31.12.2008

Issue

Section

Tourism/Hospitality: Research Papers

How to Cite

Rumo ao Sul Mediterrânico: Turismo Alemão em Portugal. (2008). Tourism & Management Studies, 4, 18-30. https://tmstudies.net/index.php/ectms/article/view/45

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