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Tourism as interaction of landscapes

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Resumo:	The Swahili society on Lamu Island has a thousand year history of contacts with other cultures through trade and shipping but today tourism is the gateway to interaction between people from various backgrounds. This paper discusses the residents’ adaption to and conceptualization of the transformations in their envisaged and experienced landscape as a result of tourism. The work focuses on the socio-cultural consequences and is based on observations and interviews during 2009-2010 in Lamu Island. The analysis shows that the interaction gives certain effects such as an accentuation of tensions already existing in the society. Tourism presence also creates the evolvement of a more explicit moral landscape. Tourism participation indicates the importance of functional institutions to achieve sustainable development.
Autores principais:	Halling, Siw-Inger
Assunto:	Lamu Swahili culture Landscape Tourism Moral landscape Sustainable t tourism
Ano:	2014
País:	Portugal
Tipo de documento:	capítulo de livro
Tipo de acesso:	acesso aberto
Instituição associada:	ISCTE
Idioma:	português
Origem:	Repositório ISCTE

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Resumo:	The Swahili society on Lamu Island has a thousand year history of contacts with other cultures through trade and shipping but today tourism is the gateway to interaction between people from various backgrounds. This paper discusses the residents’ adaption to and conceptualization of the transformations in their envisaged and experienced landscape as a result of tourism. The work focuses on the socio-cultural consequences and is based on observations and interviews during 2009-2010 in Lamu Island. The analysis shows that the interaction gives certain effects such as an accentuation of tensions already existing in the society. Tourism presence also creates the evolvement of a more explicit moral landscape. Tourism participation indicates the importance of functional institutions to achieve sustainable development.