Travel Journalism and Anglo-Portuguese Relations during the Second Decade of the 20th Century (1913)

Abstract

Travel journalism, which has been exhaustively studied by authors such as Folker Hanusch and Elfriede Fürsich, covers texts written by journalists who have been specifically invited by public or private institutions to visit a particular country and to produce accounts of their experiences for publication in the periodicals they work for, so publicising the country as a tourist destination. At the beginning of the twentieth century this term was still unused. However, this paper will attempt to show that, in view of the unusual circumstances and the context of political turmoil in which a group of British journalists visited Portugal at the invitation of the Sociedade Propaganda de Portugal, the texts they published, which were intended essentially for the promotion of tourism, are paradigmatic examples of travel journalism.