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The evolution of tourism in the Algarve as depicted in Manuel da Fonseca's Algarvian Chronicles

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Pages 257-269 | Received 27 Jun 2022, Accepted 10 Oct 2023, Published online: 23 Oct 2023
 

ABSTRACT

Journalist, writer and poet Manuel da Fonseca departed Lisbon for the Algarve in August 1968. He was tasked with writing a set of chronicles about the region for the newspaper A Capital. The chronicles, published that year as ‘O Desafio do Algarve’ (‘The Challenge of the Algarve’), were later compiled in 1986 as a volume entitled Crónicas Algarvias (Algarvian Chronicles). This article focuses on the informative aspect of the text. Over the course of the 16 days during which Manuel da Fonseca travelled through the region, he drew a portrait of the territory and its people adapting to sun and beach tourism, as well as to tourists. Chronologically located at the end of the 1960s, the Algarvian Chronicles provide a vital picture of the development of the tourism industry in the Algarve at that time.

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Notes

1 See Cristina Fé Santos; A. Paulo Dias Oliveira and Alexandra Rodrigues, Fragmentos para a História do Turismo no Algarve (Faro: Centro de Estudos em Património, Paisagem e Construção – Universidade do Algarve, 2015); Pedro Vicente Coelho, ‘Turismo e Sustentabilidade na Região do Algarve’ (master's thesis, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, 2018).

2 Helena Buescu, O Poeta na Cidade: A Literatura Portuguesa na História (Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional, 2020), 27 (our translation).

3 John Jameson, ‘Cultural Heritage Interpretation’, in Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, ed. C. Smith (New York: Springer, 2020): 1–23.

4 Christopher Brumann, ‘Cultural Heritage’, in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, ed. James D. Wright (Oxford: Elsevier, 2015), 5: 414–9.

5 Glenn Hooper and Tim Youngs, Perspectives on Travel Writing (Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2004), 14.

6 Fernando Cristóvão, Condicionantes Culturais da Literatura de Viagens: Estudos e Bibliografias, vol. I (Coimbra: Almedina, 2002), 35.

7 Maria de Fátima Outeirinho, ‘Percursos no Fim do Mundo: Patagónia Express e Final de Novela en Patagónia’, in Cadernos de Literatura Comparada – Viagens, (Porto: Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, 2008), 18: 70–86; (73). https://www.ilc-cadernos.com/index.php/cadernos/article/view/721 (our translation).

8 Manuel da Fonseca, Crónicas Algarvias (Lisboa: Editorial Caminho, [1986] 1987), 46 (our translation).

9 Ibid., 83–84 (our translation).

10 Ibid., 119 (our translation).

11 Ibid., 214 (our translation).

12 Carlos Reis and Ana Cristina Lopes, Dicionário de Narratologia (Coimbra: Edições Almedina, [1987] 2011) [bold in the original], 87 (our translation).

13 Massaud Moisés, A Criação Literária: Prosa (São Paulo: Editora Cultrix, [1967] 1987), 245 (our translation).

14 Sandra Pesavento, O Imaginário da Cidade – Visões Literárias do Urbano – Paris, Rio de Janeiro e Porto Alegre (Porto Alegre: Ed. UFRGS, 1999), 181 (our translation).

15 Maria de Lourdes Lima dos Santos, Intelectuais Portugueses na Primeira Metade de Oitocentos (Lisboa: Editorial Presença, 1988), 165 (our translation).

16 João Gaspar Simões, Perspectiva Histórica de Ficção Portuguesa: Das Origens ao Século XX (Lisboa: Publicações Dom Quixote, 1987), 541 (our translation).

17 Afrânio Coutinho, Introdução à Literatura no Brasil (Rio de Janeiro: Bertrand Brasil, [1959] 1995), 122 (our translation).

18 Massaud Moisés, A Criação Literária: Prosa (São Paulo: Editora Cultrix, [1967] 1987), 247 (our translation).

19 Eça de Queirós, ‘Crónica’, in Páginas de JornalismoO Distrito de Évora (Porto: Lello & Irmão, [6 janeiro 1867] 1981), 2: 7–8 (our translation).

20 Manuel da Fonseca, Crónicas Algarvias (Lisboa: Editorial Caminho, [1986] 1987), 9 (our translation).

21 Ibid., 11 (our translation).

22 Carina Infante do Carmo, ‘Manuel da Fonseca: A Escrita do Fogo e das Cinzas do Humano’, Cena's. Publicação Cultural 14 (2013), 17–19 (our translation).

23 Jaime Cortesão, Portugal: A Terra e o Homem (Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, [1966] 1995), 258 (our translation).

24 Miguel Torga, Portugal (Coimbra: Editora Coimbra, 1950), 131 (our translation).

25 Manuel da Fonseca, Crónicas Algarvias (Lisboa: Editorial Caminho, [1986] 1987), 197 (our translation).

26 António Correia Mendes, ‘O Aeroporto de Faro como Infraestrutura Principal do Desenvolvimento Turístico da Região’, in Fragmentos para a História do Turismo no Algarve, ed. Alexandra Gonçalves, A. Paulo Dias Oliveira and Cristina Fé Santos (Faro: Centro de Estudos em Património, Paisagem e Construção/Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais da Universidade do Algarve, 2015), 261–4 (our translation).

27 Maria da Graça Fernandes Pestana dos Santos Gonzalez Briz, ‘A Vilegiatura Balnear Marítima em Portugal (1870-1970): Sociedade, Arquitectura e Urbanismo’ (PhD thesis, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2003) (our translation).

28 Manuel da Fonseca, Crónicas Algarvias (Lisboa: Editorial Caminho, [1986] 1987), 214 (our translation).

29 Maria da Graça Fernandes Pestana dos Santos Gonzalez Briz, ‘A Vilegiatura Balnear Marítima em Portugal (1870-1970): Sociedade, Arquitectura e Urbanismo’ (PhD thesis, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2003), 80 (our translation).

30 Antonio Candido, ‘A Vida ao Rés do Chão’, in Recortes (Rio de Janeiro: Ouro sobre Azul, 2004), 27 (our translation).

31 José Dias Sancho, Deus Pan e Outros Contos (Guimarães: Opera Omnia, [1925] 2021) [italic in the original], 103–104 (our translation).

32 Manuel da Fonseca, Crónicas Algarvias (Lisboa: Editorial Caminho, [1986] 1987), 70 (our translation).

33 Ibid., 65–66 (our translation).

34 Ibid., 72 (our translation).

35 Ibid., 219 (our translation).

36 Ibid., 169 (our translation).

37 Ibid., 164 (our translation).

38 Ibid., 131 (our translation).

39 Vera Gouveia Barros, Turismo em Portugal (Lisboa: Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, 2016), 53 (our translation).

40 Alfredo de Magalhães Coelho, ‘O Planeamento e o Sector do Turismo’, Boletim do Comissariado do Turismo 3 (1967) (our translation).

41 Ibid., 141 (our translation).

42 Ibid., 172 (our translation).

43 Carminda Cavaco, ‘Geografia e Turismo no Algarve: Aspectos contemporâneos’, Finisterra IV, no. 8 (1969): 228, 216–72, https://revistas.rcaap.pt/finisterra/article/view/2484 (our translation).

44 Manuel da Fonseca, Crónicas Algarvias (Lisboa: Editorial Caminho, [1986] 1987), 74 (our translation).

45 José Dias Sancho, Roteiro do Algarve (Lisboa: Empresa Nacional de Publicidade, 1928).

46 Correia dos Santos, ‘O Turismo no Algarve’ (conferência apresentada na Casa do Algarve, Lisboa, Portugal, 1931).

47 Manuel da Fonseca, Crónicas Algarvias (Lisboa: Editorial Caminho, [1986] 1987), 71 (our translation).

48 Ibid., 224 (our translation).

49 Ibid., 72 (our translation).

50 Ibid., 113 (our translation).

51 Ibid., 97 (our translation).

52 Ibid., 172 (our translation).

53 Ibid., 197–8 [italics in the original] (our translation).

54 Alan A. Lew and Carolyn Cartier, eds., Seductions of Place: Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Touristed Landscapes (Abingdon: Routledge, 2005).

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Notes on contributors

Sílvia Quinteiro

Sílvia Quinteiro, a professor of Literary heritage and Tourism, writes on Literature and Tourism, Literary Tourism and Comparative Literature. Among her recent books are Keyconcepts in Literature and Tourism Studies (CEC/UAlg 2018), Literary Hotels of Portugal (CIAC/UAlg 2022) and Working Definitions in Literature and Tourism: A Research Guide (CIAC/UAlg 2022).

Ana Cláudia Salgueiro Silva

Ana Cláudia Salgueiro Silva, a researcher in the field of Literature and Tourism and Portuguese Literature, writes on Literature and Tourism and Literary Tourism. Among her recent publications are “Literary hotelsin Literary Hotels of Portugal (CIAC/UAlg 2022) and “Literary Hotels” and “Library Hotels” in Working Definitions in Literature and Tourism: A Research Guide (CIAC/UAlg 2022).

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