Imagens e narrativas da Coimbra turística: Entre a cidade real e a cidade (re)imaginada
At a time when we witness growing tourist fascination for towns and cities, this article seeks to understand how Coimbra presents itself to the outside world, to tourists and visitors. With the historical and monumental town having become one of the main attractions of our time, this article picks u...
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Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra
2008-12-01
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| description | At a time when we witness growing tourist fascination for towns and cities, this article seeks to understand how Coimbra presents itself to the outside world, to tourists and visitors. With the historical and monumental town having become one of the main attractions of our time, this article picks up on the tourist promotional materials circulating in Portugal and abroad to address how Coimbra’s urban resources are transformed into tourist-appeal factors.Because towns and cities are also sites of the imagination and of representation, this article discusses the notion of image in respect of marketing and advertising operations developed with a view to promoting tourism. Its main goal is to unveil the (re)imagined town: that which, through the work of symbolic translation carried out by promoters and mediators, circulates among the tourist-destination markets – unveiling also the approximations and distances between the tourist’s town and the real town. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ac9acd8fdde84395b4038c4ee9eba9502022-12-21T23:51:20ZengCentro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de CoimbraRevista Crítica de Ciências Sociais0254-11062182-74352008-12-0183557810.4000/rccs.448Imagens e narrativas da Coimbra turística: Entre a cidade real e a cidade (re)imaginadaCarina Sousa GomesAt a time when we witness growing tourist fascination for towns and cities, this article seeks to understand how Coimbra presents itself to the outside world, to tourists and visitors. With the historical and monumental town having become one of the main attractions of our time, this article picks up on the tourist promotional materials circulating in Portugal and abroad to address how Coimbra’s urban resources are transformed into tourist-appeal factors.Because towns and cities are also sites of the imagination and of representation, this article discusses the notion of image in respect of marketing and advertising operations developed with a view to promoting tourism. Its main goal is to unveil the (re)imagined town: that which, through the work of symbolic translation carried out by promoters and mediators, circulates among the tourist-destination markets – unveiling also the approximations and distances between the tourist’s town and the real town.http://journals.openedition.org/rccs/448urban tourismtourism promotionurban imaginarytourist narratives |
| spellingShingle | Carina Sousa Gomes Imagens e narrativas da Coimbra turística: Entre a cidade real e a cidade (re)imaginada Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais urban tourism tourism promotion urban imaginary tourist narratives |
| title | Imagens e narrativas da Coimbra turística: Entre a cidade real e a cidade (re)imaginada |
| title_full | Imagens e narrativas da Coimbra turística: Entre a cidade real e a cidade (re)imaginada |
| title_fullStr | Imagens e narrativas da Coimbra turística: Entre a cidade real e a cidade (re)imaginada |
| title_full_unstemmed | Imagens e narrativas da Coimbra turística: Entre a cidade real e a cidade (re)imaginada |
| title_short | Imagens e narrativas da Coimbra turística: Entre a cidade real e a cidade (re)imaginada |
| title_sort | imagens e narrativas da coimbra turistica entre a cidade real e a cidade re imaginada |
| topic | urban tourism tourism promotion urban imaginary tourist narratives |
| url | http://journals.openedition.org/rccs/448 |
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