NEWS:
Schedule of Thematic Sessions is now available.
We are delighted to inform that the Ecopoltur Closing Conference will be hosted by one of the world's leading experts on heritage and tourism, Professor Maria Gravari-Barbas, director of the Institute of Recherche et d'Etudes Supérieures du Tourisme-IREST, Université Paris 1- Sorbonne.
FIELDTRIP INFORMATIONS:
1. Fieldtrip "Santos/Bertioga" - 26th (Closed Subscriptions): subscription and payment.
2. Fieldtrip "São Paulo" - 27th: free and opened to everyone who is interested.
3. Fieldtrip "Community Based Tourism" - 27th and 28th (Closed Subscriptions): subscription and payment.
The field trip 3 - Tourism in Protected Areas (Rain Forest) - will be held on 27th and 28th October (Sunday and Monday, respectively), for logistical reasons. This enable everyone to take part in both field trips 3 and 1 (Bertioga). Subscriptions to this activity are limited and prior registration is required.
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The Organizing Committee of the International Seminar “The Political Economy of Tourism” is pleased to inform that researchers from several Brazilian states as well as from different countries (Argentina, Cuba, the United States, Sweden, Finland, Spain, Poland, Turkey, Mozambique, South Africa) will be sharing with us the results of their tourism researches (the complete Program will be announced soon).
Thus, considering that for 25 years there has not been a far-reaching scientific event on tourism in Brazil within the scope of Geography and aiming to broaden the socialization of these debates, we are opening the registration for those who wish to follow the Seminar as listeners, who will have access to all sessions as well as to printed materials and Certificate of Participation.
Registration will be open until September 15th and must be made on our page in Internet: http://ecopoltur.fflch.usp.br/en/registration
Strongly promoted by public institutions and private companies, the economic, political and social importance of tourism has been the object of scientific events in different areas of knowledge and demanded a critical reflection for which Geography, as a disciplinary field, has an important contribution to give, insofar as space - or rather, the particularities of places - is at the center of the development of tourism as a phenomenon. That is to say, tourism develops realizing itself in the space and through the production of the space.
The International Seminar "The Political Economy of Tourism" aims to bring together researchers, professors and students from different countries to critically discuss the "place" of tourism in the contemporary world, with the political economy as a north for the debate.
It is therefore with great satisfaction that the Department of Geography of the Faculty of Philosophy, Literature and Letters and Human Sciences-FFLCH of the University of São Paulo-USP, Brazil, with the support of the International Geographical Union - IGU, opens its doors to this event, which aims to promote a rich opportunity for the exchange of ideas between those who think about tourism beyond the statistics and the superficiality of appearances to understand it in the movement of understanding the modern world.
The Department of Geography of FFLCH/USP turns 85 in 2019 and hosts the oldest Geography undergraduate course in Brazil, being located in the largest metropolis in the country, the city of São Paulo with its approximately 12 million inhabitants. With 45 professors, more than 1000 undergraduate and 350 postgraduate students, the DG/ FFLCH /USP has been a democratic space for free thought over the decades and it is in this spirit that we invite all interested people to be with us during this journey.