Fonte: Journal of Tourism & Development; n. 5 (2006); 95-112
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Resumo: Cities have always been spaces of inter-ethnic relations, places where people of different origins and pasts meet. Globalization processes are always accompanied by the intensification of migratory fluxes – in which tourism and immigration assume a predominant place, contributing for the increase of cultural diversity in cities.In this work we will firstly reflect upon the relation between ethnic tourism, globalization, and its impacts on cities.In a second moment we will focus on the origin and the nature of the concept of ethnic tourism and upon the problematic ways in which it has been explored.Finally, a preliminary analysis of the relation between immigration, tourism and inter-ethnic relations in the concrete case of Lisbon will be presented. We will discuss the process and frameworks of the production of difference and its identitary dynamics, looking at the way in which some processes produce ethnolandscapes (Appadurai, 1996 e Anderson, 2001) while others produce “ghettoization” phenomena. Those issues will be approached through a case study: the ethnic tourist project “Sabura- África, aqui tão perto!”, in the outskirts of Lisbon. More specifically, we will reflect on the emergence of this ethnic tourist market and its cultural, economic, political and social impacts.
