Fonte: Journal of Tourism & Development; v. 1, n. 21/22 (2014); 13-22
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Resumo: A contemporary way of understanding tourism is to approach travel as a means of creating new societies.Instead of looking at cultures commodified as destinations for tourist consumption, it is worth exploring tourism itself asemergent culture. This paper goes beyond ‘destinations’ to explore national tourism discourses and practices by situatinginteractive and embodied spaces invested with emergent meanings. It focuses on the relationship between the constructionsof national identity and tourism and situates the study in Singapore to investigate discursive spaces in terms ofvisualities, materialities and reflexivities. The research critically evaluates the relationships, experiences and performancesthat inform a bricolage research methodology. Through questioning the relationship between Singapore’s nation buildingproject and tourism policy, tourist practice is understood in the context of the everyday through ‘local’ consumption, itstranslation into tourist identities and vice versa.
