Turismo Cultural e Eventos - A Importância de Transformar os Eventos Culturais da Ilha de São Vicente em Produtos Turísticos

O presente trabalho visa estudar a importância de transformar os eventos culturais da ilha de São Vicente em produtos turísticos. Está mais do que provado que o turismo pode ser considerado o motor de desenvolvimento de qualquer economia, mas também que poderá levar a sérios problemas ambientais, sociais, culturais e até mesmo económicos com efeito a longo prazo, caso não for bem planeado. Dentro do turismo, o sector de eventos tem apresentado uma grande evolução, trazendo muitos benefícios e promoção para os destinos turísticos. Para além da importância que os eventos têm para os destinos turísticos, esta pesquisa também estudará o que é preciso ser feito a nível social, e em relação às infra-estruturas e serviços locais para serem transformados em produtos turísticos. Para efectuar essa transformação que poderá trazer muito mais benefícios tanto para a ilha como para a população local, será preciso que os eventos culturais da ilha sejam planeados e organizados, envolvendo todas as enti dades locais e a comunidade, de forma que possam criar soluções para desenvolver um turismo sustentável para São Vicente, e diminuir os impactos negativos no ambiente, na sociedade e na cultura. The goal of this Project is to study the importance of transforming the cultural events of São Vicente Island into touristic products. It is proved that tourism can be considered the development engine of any economy, but it can also lead to serious environmental, social, cultural end even economical problems with long term effects in case of bad planning. Within tourism, the events sector has seen a great evolution, bringing many benefits such as promotion to touristic destinations. Further to the importance that the events have to the touristic destinations, this research will also study what needs to be done concerning society and in relation to infrastructures and local services to be transformed into touristic products. To make these transformations come to life, something which can bring much more benefits to the island as well as to the local population, the cultural events of the island need to be planned and organized involving all the local entities, and the community, in the creation of solutions to develop a sustainable tourism for São Vicente and diminish the negative impacts on the environment, society and culture.

IRELAND AND LATIN AMERICA: A CULTURAL HISTORY

According to Declan Kiberd, “postcolonial writing does not begin only when the occupier withdraws: rather it is initiated at that very moment when a native writer formulates a text committed to cultural resistance.” The Irish in Latin America – a continent emerging from indigenous cultures, colonisation, and migrations – may be regarded as colonised in Ireland and as colonisers in their new home. They are a counterexample to the standard pattern of identities in the major English-speaking destinations of the Irish Diaspora. Using literary sources, the press, correspondence, music, sports, and other cultural representations, in this thesis I search the attitudes and shared values signifying identities among the immigrants and their families. Their fragmentary and wide-ranging cultures provide a rich context to study the protean process of adaptation to, or rejection of, the new countries. Evolving from oppressed to oppressors, the Irish in Latin America swiftly became ingleses. Subsequently, in order to join the local middle classes they became vaqueros, llaneros, huasos, and gauchos so they could show signs of their effective integration to the native culture, as seen by the Latin American elites. Eventually, some Irish groups separated from the English mainstream culture and shaped their own community negotiating among Irishness, Englishness, and local identities in Brazil, Uruguay, Peru, Cuba, and other places in the region. These identities were not only unmoored in the emigrants’ minds but also manoeuvred by the political needs of community and religious leaders. After reviewing the major steps and patterns of Irish migration to Latin America, the thesis analyses texts from selected works, offers a version of how the settlers became Latin Americans or not, and elucidates the processes by which a new Irish-Latin American hybrid was created.