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

Quinteiro, Sílvia; Silva, Ana Cláudia Salgueiro da

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Quinteiro, Sílvia

Silva, Ana Cláudia Salgueiro da

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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 Cronicas 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.