Lisboa sob o olhar do turista

Abstract

This article aims at registering and analyzing representations by tourists and occasional visitors of modern Lisbon involving the universe of practices and images related to the cities as captured by means of interviews with men of women from different places. It has as its major assumption the fact that the area of urban investments, the consecrating rituals of tourist niches and the discourse by tourists about Lisbon are not isolated issues. Visitors’ representations, according to data collected in the research, are not independent from other practices and discourse found in the city. The resulting reflections are developed within the perspective of assessment of tourists in the effort to determine their role as announcers of a new globalized world.