Class Contemporary Tourism

Tourism has played a central role in globalisation, allowing us to reflect on issues such as identity and heritage, historical and cultural representation, authenticity and ownership, neoliberalism, inequality, gender relations, among others. In this course we will explore different forms of tourism, including creative tourism, digital nomads and festival tourism. Throughout the semester we'll consider issues such as the gaze, authenticity, identity, consumption, ritual and pilgrimage. This course presents tourism as a relevant field for contemporary anthropological research, from the emergence of the 'anthropology of tourism' as a subfield in the 1970s to the major theoretical debates of today.

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1. Complexity as a new reality 2. Complexity and urban tourism references 3. Tourism as an anthropological problem Interculturality and hospitality 4. Authenticity, fantasy  5. Utopia, Heterotopia and Island Tourism 6. critical-analytical study of current models of contemporary tourism: Creative Tourism (CREATOUR), Gastronomic Tourism, Small-Scale Art Festivals, Digital Nomads, Volunteer Tourism and Mass Tourism.

Digital pedagogy tools like Padlet and Menti and will be used and project-based learning methods will be applied to evaluated activities. Student reflection and discussion will be stimulated using various techniques such as team-based learning.

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