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Accepted Paper:

Practices of the tourism industry at Madeira Island: an ethnography of hiking trails  
Filipa Fernandes (University of Lisbon, Universidad de Salamanca)

Paper short abstract:

This paper addresses the understandings of touristic processes and practices in Madeira Island related to hiking trails.

Paper long abstract:

The purpose of this paper is to analyze tourism industry practices regarding hiking trails along water cannals known as levadas. This heritage element is simultaneously used by different tourism, recreation and peasant user groups in Madeira Island. They are the regional cultural symbol, a space of consumption and cultural fruition by tourists who go through to gaze natural and cultural heritage. The majority of these water canals are located in Madeira Nature Park, which also includes the Laurel Forest (World Heritage by UNESCO).

Based on a PhD fieldwork in tourism and anthropology this paper seeks to analyze the relations between the diverse actors of the regional tourist system and present an ethnographic study of the touristic offer, developed through the combination of policies, plans and actions for the promotion of various products on the market, operated by diverse structures: public (involving the regional government structures), and private (involves the tourism companies, accommodation, and intermediaries, namely, travel agencies).

Panel P19
Anthropology and tourism
  Session 1