Thesis (M.A.)--Acadia University, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Masters Diploma)--Cape Technikon, Cape Town, 1995 / Tourism is one of the social and economic phenomena evidencing the most rapid growth this century, and it has the potential of becoming the largest industry in the country. To prevent a decline in the tourism assets of South Africa, while simultaneously maximizing • the economic benefits and job opportunities arising from tourism, it is vitally important for the industry to be managed with great care. Against the backdrop of domestic tourism in South Africa, research was conducted into and recommendations made on the issue of whether the tourist destination sector has the necessary management structure and infra-organization to underpin effective management, communication, co-ordination and the promotion of tourism activities and objectives within this sector. An historical perspective on the process of change affecting the organization of tourism, linked to the findings derived from the empirical study, will endeavour to give an account of the development of tourism organizations in the destination sector compared to the present day state of affairs at national, regional and local levels. As a significant part of the success of any organization may be att~buted to good management and organization, this study also focuses on the importance of management in general, organization, types of structures, effective communication co-ordination and marketing communication.

Museums and tourism have had a long and interrelated history. In this paper this relationship is reviewed in general, and the contemporary issues common to them both in the 1990's are discussed. This relationship is also explored in the context of the Oregon Coastal Zone. Two projects set on the Oregon Coast, involving museums, tourism and other organizations, the Bandon Community Archaeology project and the Lincoln County Interpretation project, are presented as alternatives to existing tourism opportunities. Both projects provide an alternative type of tourist experience where education and interpretation are the primary vehicles for creating benefits not only to tourists, but to the host community as well. These benefits may reduce possible negative impacts from tourism. / Graduation date: 1991

A presente pesquisa tem como objeto de estudo o conceito de Turismo pedagógico, focalizado em relações conceituais que possam emergir da análise desse binômio, tendo em conta particularmente o fato de “Turismo” configurar-se como termo nuclear da expressão. Assim tendo por suposto que, na constituição do binômio, cada um de seus elementos constitutivos encerra amplo e dinâmico espectro conceitual tecido por diferentes vieses teóricos, construídos igualmente em diversos percursos históricos, a investigação busca responder às questões: Na adjetivação do turismo como pedagógico, que concepções de turismo e que pressupostos epistemológico-pedagógicos estariam aí presentes? Essas concepções e esses pressupostos estariam sendo discutidos na literatura científica acessada em cujo foco está o binômio “Turismo pedagógico”? Sob esse prisma, o trabalho tem como objetivo identificar/explicitar configurações conceituais que assume a denominação “Turismo pedagógico” em proposições teóricas ou teórico-práticas presentes (e acessadas) na literatura científica (em que é tematizado o Turismo pedagógico), considerando, de um lado, abordagens conceituais de turismo e, de outro, relações que se estabelecem entre modelos epistemológicos e pedagógicos e, nesse sentido, proporcionar uma sistematização, no recorte temporal e bibliográfico metodologicamente estabelecido, da produção, no Brasil, do conhecimento a respeito – ou, mais especificamente, uma visão analítico-conceitual do entendimento que estudiosos do turismo mostram ter acerca do tema. De caráter qualitativo e de cunho exploratório bibliográfico, a pesquisa, mediante uma abordagem hermenêutica e recortes metodológicos operacionais, analisa doze artigos publicados no arco temporal de 2005 a 2012, em periódicos científicos brasileiros e/ou apresentados em eventos científicos consolidados na área do Turismo, de cujo título consta o binômio “Turismo pedagógico”. A análise realizou-se com base no processo de elaboração de definição, como o apresenta Garcia (2006), segundo o qual essa corresponde a uma proposição predicativa constituída de: Termo (definiendum), Cópula, Gênero (genus) e Diferenças (differentiae). Realizado o processo, chegou-se à formulação de uma definição de Turismo pedagógico para a qual convergiram o conjunto de autorias, a partir do que se procedeu à síntese interpretativa, sendo identificadas configurações conceituais de turismo, como também pressupostos epistemológico-pedagógicos que lhe estariam subjacentes. O estudo levou à proposição de discussão da própria denominação da atividade no âmbito escolar, assim como evidenciou recorrentes “deslizamentos conceituais” na abordagem do binômio, aportando, assim, sinalizadores da importância de que configurações conceituais relativas ao Turismo pedagógico sejam postas em discussão, principalmente face à constatação da permanência, ao longo do tempo, de concepções teóricas acompanhadas de algumas incongruências em relação às suas bases epistemológico-pedagógicas e aos vínculos estabelecidos com a prática escolar. / Submitted by Ana Guimarães Pereira (agpereir@ucs.br) on 2014-11-18T15:28:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Francielle de Lima.pdf: 7847818 bytes, checksum: 7ffa92e986096a4ba4afe0b2e3be3de4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-11-18T15:28:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Francielle de Lima.pdf: 7847818 bytes, checksum: 7ffa92e986096a4ba4afe0b2e3be3de4 (MD5) / Universidade de Caxias do Sul / The aim of this work is to study the concept of pedagogic Tourism, focusing on conceptual relations that may arise from the analysis of this combination, considering the term “Tourism” as the nuclear one of the expression. Thus, supposing that in the constitution of this binomial, each of its constitutive elements contains a wide and dynamic conceptual spectrum, woven by different theoretical biases, which were built in diverse historical contexts, the research aims at answering the following questions: Which would be the concepts of tourism, and the epistemological-pedagogical presuppositions contained in the adjective “pedagogic”? Would these concepts and presuppositions be discussed on scientific literature with focus on “pedagogic Tourism”? From this viewpoint, this work has the aim of identifying/explaining conceptual configurations of the expression “pedagogic Tourism” in theoretical or theoretical-practical assumptions which are present (and accessed) in scientific literature (in which pedagogic Tourism is studied), considering, on one hand,conceptual approaches of tourism, and, on the other hand, relations which are established between epistemological and pedagogical models. In this sense, systematization will be provided, in time and bibliography, considering methodology of production in Brazil, as well as knowledge about it – or, more specifically, an analytical-conceptual vision of those who study tourism. This qualitative and bibliographic explorative research analyzes, through an hermeneutical approach and methodological operational cuts, twelve articles published between the years of 2005 and 2012, in scientific Brazilian journals and/or those which were presented in scientific events consolidated in the area of Tourism, in which title appears the expression “pedagogic Tourism”. This analysis was done based on the process of elaboration of a definition, as Garcia (2006) presents it. According to it, this is a predicative proposition composed of: Term (definiendum), Copula, Gender (genus), and Differences (differentiae). After the process was followed, it was arrived to a definition of pedagogical Tourism, to which a number of authors converged. From this, it was done an interpretative synthesis, identifying conceptual configurations of tourism, as well as pedagogical-epistemological assumptions which would be adjacent to them. This study led to the discussion of the name of the activity at school. It also evidenced repeated “conceptual errors” in this combination’s approach. This leads to signs of the importance of discussing conceptual configurations related to pedagogical Tourism, mainly those which remain in time, as well as theoretical conceptions followed by some incongruence related to their epistemological-pedagogical bases, and links established by school practice.

A presente pesquisa tem como objeto de estudo o conceito de Turismo pedagógico, focalizado em relações conceituais que possam emergir da análise desse binômio, tendo em conta particularmente o fato de “Turismo” configurar-se como termo nuclear da expressão. Assim tendo por suposto que, na constituição do binômio, cada um de seus elementos constitutivos encerra amplo e dinâmico espectro conceitual tecido por diferentes vieses teóricos, construídos igualmente em diversos percursos históricos, a investigação busca responder às questões: Na adjetivação do turismo como pedagógico, que concepções de turismo e que pressupostos epistemológico-pedagógicos estariam aí presentes? Essas concepções e esses pressupostos estariam sendo discutidos na literatura científica acessada em cujo foco está o binômio “Turismo pedagógico”? Sob esse prisma, o trabalho tem como objetivo identificar/explicitar configurações conceituais que assume a denominação “Turismo pedagógico” em proposições teóricas ou teórico-práticas presentes (e acessadas) na literatura científica (em que é tematizado o Turismo pedagógico), considerando, de um lado, abordagens conceituais de turismo e, de outro, relações que se estabelecem entre modelos epistemológicos e pedagógicos e, nesse sentido, proporcionar uma sistematização, no recorte temporal e bibliográfico metodologicamente estabelecido, da produção, no Brasil, do conhecimento a respeito – ou, mais especificamente, uma visão analítico-conceitual do entendimento que estudiosos do turismo mostram ter acerca do tema. De caráter qualitativo e de cunho exploratório bibliográfico, a pesquisa, mediante uma abordagem hermenêutica e recortes metodológicos operacionais, analisa doze artigos publicados no arco temporal de 2005 a 2012, em periódicos científicos brasileiros e/ou apresentados em eventos científicos consolidados na área do Turismo, de cujo título consta o binômio “Turismo pedagógico”. A análise realizou-se com base no processo de elaboração de definição, como o apresenta Garcia (2006), segundo o qual essa corresponde a uma proposição predicativa constituída de: Termo (definiendum), Cópula, Gênero (genus) e Diferenças (differentiae). Realizado o processo, chegou-se à formulação de uma definição de Turismo pedagógico para a qual convergiram o conjunto de autorias, a partir do que se procedeu à síntese interpretativa, sendo identificadas configurações conceituais de turismo, como também pressupostos epistemológico-pedagógicos que lhe estariam subjacentes. O estudo levou à proposição de discussão da própria denominação da atividade no âmbito escolar, assim como evidenciou recorrentes “deslizamentos conceituais” na abordagem do binômio, aportando, assim, sinalizadores da importância de que configurações conceituais relativas ao Turismo pedagógico sejam postas em discussão, principalmente face à constatação da permanência, ao longo do tempo, de concepções teóricas acompanhadas de algumas incongruências em relação às suas bases epistemológico-pedagógicas e aos vínculos estabelecidos com a prática escolar. / Universidade de Caxias do Sul / The aim of this work is to study the concept of pedagogic Tourism, focusing on conceptual relations that may arise from the analysis of this combination, considering the term “Tourism” as the nuclear one of the expression. Thus, supposing that in the constitution of this binomial, each of its constitutive elements contains a wide and dynamic conceptual spectrum, woven by different theoretical biases, which were built in diverse historical contexts, the research aims at answering the following questions: Which would be the concepts of tourism, and the epistemological-pedagogical presuppositions contained in the adjective “pedagogic”? Would these concepts and presuppositions be discussed on scientific literature with focus on “pedagogic Tourism”? From this viewpoint, this work has the aim of identifying/explaining conceptual configurations of the expression “pedagogic Tourism” in theoretical or theoretical-practical assumptions which are present (and accessed) in scientific literature (in which pedagogic Tourism is studied), considering, on one hand,conceptual approaches of tourism, and, on the other hand, relations which are established between epistemological and pedagogical models. In this sense, systematization will be provided, in time and bibliography, considering methodology of production in Brazil, as well as knowledge about it – or, more specifically, an analytical-conceptual vision of those who study tourism. This qualitative and bibliographic explorative research analyzes, through an hermeneutical approach and methodological operational cuts, twelve articles published between the years of 2005 and 2012, in scientific Brazilian journals and/or those which were presented in scientific events consolidated in the area of Tourism, in which title appears the expression “pedagogic Tourism”. This analysis was done based on the process of elaboration of a definition, as Garcia (2006) presents it. According to it, this is a predicative proposition composed of: Term (definiendum), Copula, Gender (genus), and Differences (differentiae). After the process was followed, it was arrived to a definition of pedagogical Tourism, to which a number of authors converged. From this, it was done an interpretative synthesis, identifying conceptual configurations of tourism, as well as pedagogical-epistemological assumptions which would be adjacent to them. This study led to the discussion of the name of the activity at school. It also evidenced repeated “conceptual errors” in this combination’s approach. This leads to signs of the importance of discussing conceptual configurations related to pedagogical Tourism, mainly those which remain in time, as well as theoretical conceptions followed by some incongruence related to their epistemological-pedagogical bases, and links established by school practice.

Although manpower and educational planning have been used in some developing countries for a considerable time to ensure an adequate supply of qualified manpower for the economy, the problem of manpower shortages still persists. An analysis of the reasons underlying the presumed failure of planning processes to ensure adequate supplies of qualified manpower for individual sectors of the economy forms the basis of this study. The issue was examined through an examination of the case of one specific sector of Thailand's economy: the tourism industry. In particular, the study sought to ascertain whether the shortages are the result of problems with the national manpower and educational planning models or whether they reflect issues intrinsic to individual economic sectors. The study draws on the literature in three areas: manpower planning, the relationship between manpower and educational planning, and employment and manpower development planning in the tourism industry. To explore possible explanations for the persistence of manpower shortages in the Thai tourism industry, two kinds of data were used: documentary and interview data. The interviews were conducted with three groups of key informants: employers in the tourist business, providers of tourism education and training, and senior government officials who are involved in manpower and educational planning. A total of 85 people in four tourist centres in Thailand were interviewed. The analysis of the data confirms that there is a mismatch between manpower demand and supply in the Thai tourism industry with demand significantly surpassing supply. The study concluded that there are limitations in the manpower and educational planning models, and that there is a lack of some of the conditions required for their optimal functioning, but that the mismatch between supply and demand in the Thai tourism industry is more fully explained by features intrinsic to the industry itself. A Abstract balance between manpower demand and supply in any sectors would be improved by having manpower planning at the macro level well meshed with educational planning, and by developing linkages between two levels of planning: the national and industry level. More importantly, however, within the industry itself, those involved have to take a planning stance by diagnosing the way their own sector operates and collaborating to rectify the problems they find. This study has implications for policy and improved practice of the planning, production and development of manpower required by the Thai tourism industry. It also has lessons for other sectors of the Thai economy as well as other developing countries.

Although manpower and educational planning have been used in some developing countries for a considerable time to ensure an adequate supply of qualified manpower for the economy, the problem of manpower shortages still persists. An analysis of the reasons underlying the presumed failure of planning processes to ensure adequate supplies of qualified manpower for individual sectors of the economy forms the basis of this study. The issue was examined through an examination of the case of one specific sector of Thailand's economy: the tourism industry. In particular, the study sought to ascertain whether the shortages are the result of problems with the national manpower and educational planning models or whether they reflect issues intrinsic to individual economic sectors. The study draws on the literature in three areas: manpower planning, the relationship between manpower and educational planning, and employment and manpower development planning in the tourism industry. To explore possible explanations for the persistence of manpower shortages in the Thai tourism industry, two kinds of data were used: documentary and interview data. The interviews were conducted with three groups of key informants: employers in the tourist business, providers of tourism education and training, and senior government officials who are involved in manpower and educational planning. A total of 85 people in four tourist centres in Thailand were interviewed. The analysis of the data confirms that there is a mismatch between manpower demand and supply in the Thai tourism industry with demand significantly surpassing supply. The study concluded that there are limitations in the manpower and educational planning models, and that there is a lack of some of the conditions required for their optimal functioning, but that the mismatch between supply and demand in the Thai tourism industry is more fully explained by features intrinsic to the industry itself. A Abstract balance between manpower demand and supply in any sectors would be improved by having manpower planning at the macro level well meshed with educational planning, and by developing linkages between two levels of planning: the national and industry level. More importantly, however, within the industry itself, those involved have to take a planning stance by diagnosing the way their own sector operates and collaborating to rectify the problems they find. This study has implications for policy and improved practice of the planning, production and development of manpower required by the Thai tourism industry. It also has lessons for other sectors of the Thai economy as well as other developing countries. / Education, Faculty of / Educational Studies (EDST), Department of / Graduate

O estudo descreve as percepções, expectativas e conhecimentos de representantes dos setores público e privado da comunidade de Gramado e de turistas que visitam a cidade, quanto à importância relativa do aspecto segurança no planejamento da atividade turística. Participaram do estudo 20 sujeitos residentes em Gramado, que desenvolvem suas atividades no município, e 21 turistas em visita à região. O município de Gramado, que integra a Região das Hortênsias, é considerado um importante destino !turístico do sul do Brasil. No campo da Segurança Pública, a análise ficou de!lim itada no segmento da Polícia Ostensiva (Polícia Militar) pelo fato de seus representantes estarem em contato permanente com o público (comunidade local e turistas). O tratamento da segurança no turismo apresentado, aborda a perspectiva sug1erida pela Organização Mundial do Turismo (OMT}, os fatores associados e as várias dimensões que integram o conceito de "Segurança Turística". Foram aplicadas entrevistas semi-abertas com roteiro tópico predefinido, utilizando-se dois modelos de questionário, sendo um para cada grupo de entrevistados. A análise de conteúdo dos depoimentos sugere o seguinte: na visão dos entrevistados locais, a atrativiídade de Gramado está intimamente ligada à questão da segurança. Os turistas consideram a cidade um destino tranqüilo e seguro. Ambos os entrevistados (residentes e turistas), referem quanto à importância dos policiais militares receberem capacitação turística para poder melhor lidar com o turista. / Submitted by Ana Guimarães Pereira (agpereir@ucs.br) on 2015-10-07T17:40:37Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Gelso Guimarães Gollo.pdf: 23139260 bytes, checksum: 87e66ddaafa696530f7ec1d4285d6265 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-10-07T17:40:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Gelso Guimarães Gollo.pdf: 23139260 bytes, checksum: 87e66ddaafa696530f7ec1d4285d6265 (MD5) / The study describes the perceptiions, expectations and knowledge got from representatives of the public and private sectors of the city of Gramado and tourists who visited the city, about the importance of the security on planning the touristic activity. Twenty native people who have their business in Gramado and twenty-one tourists in their visits to the city participated in this study. The city of Gramado is considered an important touristic destination in the south of Brazil. In the field of public security, the analysis was produc:ed using the workforce of the military police, in as much as their contact with thte public (local community and tourists) is permanent. The treatment of the security in tourism presented, broaches the perspective suggested by Tourism Wmld Organization (TWO), the re lated factors and the severa! dimension which make part o f the concept " T ouristic Security". People answered an interview based on trips with tou rs previously defined, using two different questionnaires: each one for each group. The analysis of the answers suggest the following: local community thinks that Gramados' attraction is closely related to security; tourists consider the city a safe and calm place. 8oth groups (local and tourists) mention the importance of the military police to gain capacity to work with the tourists in a proper way.

Fruto da constante movimentação de um turismólogo tentando se ambientar ao olhar antropológico, e suas nuances etnográficas, este trabalho busca complexificar a compreensão e utilização da(s) Experiência(s) Turística(s), tanto pela academia científica, como pelo “trade” turístico. Enquanto busca subsídios teóricos para compreensão proposta pela Antropologia da Experiência, de Victor Turner e Edward Bruner, e sua abordagem científica de uma Experiência, que destaca sua forma processual e ritual, pessoal e subjetiva, este trabalho tenta compreender porque uma história de vida só pode ser percebida e sentida pela pessoa que experiencia as realidades que defronta, nos diferentes espaços em que circula, ao longo de sua vida, e expressada da forma que desejar e conseguir representar. Imerso no ciberespaço, ao mesmo tempo em que experimenta metodologias para emersão de pistas nesse universo aberto, não fixo e plural, que possibilita expressões descentralizadas e desterritorializadas, de acordo com os interesses e diretrizes significativas de cada pessoa que as externa, busca narrativas em blogs de viagens que possam expressar as representações das pessoas a respeito de suas experiências turísticas, envoltas (frente) a um fenômeno que desloca indivíduos de seu cotidiano espaço e tempo, como o turismo, que, ao mesmo tempo, possibilita momentos de estranhamento, de confrontamento dramático entre seus conhecimentos prévios e a realidade a sua frente. Parte-se da compreensão de cultura como uma rede dinâmica de interações, construída por cada indivíduo ao longo das relações vividas na sua existência e pelos deslocamentos proporcionados pelo turismo e pela comunicação, como no caso da rede de relacionamentos estabelecida a partir do interesse comum pelas viagens, apesar de cada personagem presente expressar diferentes perspectivas sobre o assunto. A partir disso, questiona-se a compreensão de uma experiência turística a partir de suas estruturas físicas e fixas, sendo os personagens principais e cognoscentes de todo esse processo, pessoas com suas próprias diretrizes significativas e relações espaço-temporais diante das diferentes realidades que experienciar, conforme suas próprias bagagens de vida. / Submitted by Ana Guimarães Pereira (agpereir@ucs.br) on 2015-11-27T17:05:35Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Henrique Patto Pinho Vieira de Camargo.pdf: 9560281 bytes, checksum: 192646e99ee3609f897a6ba1092874bb (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-11-27T17:05:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Henrique Patto Pinho Vieira de Camargo.pdf: 9560281 bytes, checksum: 192646e99ee3609f897a6ba1092874bb (MD5) / Consequence of the constant movement of a tourismologist trying to acclimatize to the anthropological gaze, and its ethnographic nuances, this paper seeks to complexify the understanding and uses of Touristic(s) Experience(s), either by scientific academy, as by the tourism trade. While searching theoretical basis for understanding the proposal by the Anthropology of Experience, by Victor Turner and Edward Bruner, and its scientific approach to Experience, highlighting its procedural form and ritual, personal and subjective, this work attempts to understand why a life story can only be perceived and felt by the person who experiences the realities that faces in different spaces that circulates throughout his life, and expresses the way that wants and is able to represent. Immersed in cyberspace, while experiencing methodologies for emergence of clues in this opened universe, plural and not fixed, allowing expressions decentralized and deterritorialized, according to the interests and meaningful guidelines of each person that externalizes them, search narratives in Travel blogs that can express representations about their traveling experiences, wrapped (in front) to a phenomenon that displaces individuals from their everyday space and time, such as tourism, which at the same time, enables moments of strangeness, of dramatic confrontation between their previous knowledge and the reality in front of them. By understanding of culture as a dynamic network of interactions, built by each individual along the relationships experienced in their lives and the displacement provided by tourism and communication, such as the network of relationships established from the common interest by travel, although each present character express different perspectives on the subject. From this, we question the understanding of a touristic experience from their physical structures and fixed, considering the main characters cognizant of this whole process, people with their own meaningful guidelines and space-temporal relations given the different realities that experience as its own baggage of life.

Fruto da constante movimentação de um turismólogo tentando se ambientar ao olhar antropológico, e suas nuances etnográficas, este trabalho busca complexificar a compreensão e utilização da(s) Experiência(s) Turística(s), tanto pela academia científica, como pelo “trade” turístico. Enquanto busca subsídios teóricos para compreensão proposta pela Antropologia da Experiência, de Victor Turner e Edward Bruner, e sua abordagem científica de uma Experiência, que destaca sua forma processual e ritual, pessoal e subjetiva, este trabalho tenta compreender porque uma história de vida só pode ser percebida e sentida pela pessoa que experiencia as realidades que defronta, nos diferentes espaços em que circula, ao longo de sua vida, e expressada da forma que desejar e conseguir representar. Imerso no ciberespaço, ao mesmo tempo em que experimenta metodologias para emersão de pistas nesse universo aberto, não fixo e plural, que possibilita expressões descentralizadas e desterritorializadas, de acordo com os interesses e diretrizes significativas de cada pessoa que as externa, busca narrativas em blogs de viagens que possam expressar as representações das pessoas a respeito de suas experiências turísticas, envoltas (frente) a um fenômeno que desloca indivíduos de seu cotidiano espaço e tempo, como o turismo, que, ao mesmo tempo, possibilita momentos de estranhamento, de confrontamento dramático entre seus conhecimentos prévios e a realidade a sua frente. Parte-se da compreensão de cultura como uma rede dinâmica de interações, construída por cada indivíduo ao longo das relações vividas na sua existência e pelos deslocamentos proporcionados pelo turismo e pela comunicação, como no caso da rede de relacionamentos estabelecida a partir do interesse comum pelas viagens, apesar de cada personagem presente expressar diferentes perspectivas sobre o assunto. A partir disso, questiona-se a compreensão de uma experiência turística a partir de suas estruturas físicas e fixas, sendo os personagens principais e cognoscentes de todo esse processo, pessoas com suas próprias diretrizes significativas e relações espaço-temporais diante das diferentes realidades que experienciar, conforme suas próprias bagagens de vida. / Consequence of the constant movement of a tourismologist trying to acclimatize to the anthropological gaze, and its ethnographic nuances, this paper seeks to complexify the understanding and uses of Touristic(s) Experience(s), either by scientific academy, as by the tourism trade. While searching theoretical basis for understanding the proposal by the Anthropology of Experience, by Victor Turner and Edward Bruner, and its scientific approach to Experience, highlighting its procedural form and ritual, personal and subjective, this work attempts to understand why a life story can only be perceived and felt by the person who experiences the realities that faces in different spaces that circulates throughout his life, and expresses the way that wants and is able to represent. Immersed in cyberspace, while experiencing methodologies for emergence of clues in this opened universe, plural and not fixed, allowing expressions decentralized and deterritorialized, according to the interests and meaningful guidelines of each person that externalizes them, search narratives in Travel blogs that can express representations about their traveling experiences, wrapped (in front) to a phenomenon that displaces individuals from their everyday space and time, such as tourism, which at the same time, enables moments of strangeness, of dramatic confrontation between their previous knowledge and the reality in front of them. By understanding of culture as a dynamic network of interactions, built by each individual along the relationships experienced in their lives and the displacement provided by tourism and communication, such as the network of relationships established from the common interest by travel, although each present character express different perspectives on the subject. From this, we question the understanding of a touristic experience from their physical structures and fixed, considering the main characters cognizant of this whole process, people with their own meaningful guidelines and space-temporal relations given the different realities that experience as its own baggage of life.