Highlights Tourism and environmental sciences' students are compared. Tourism students highlight topics related to “Profit” and “People”. Sustainability literacy in tourism cannot solely depend on the interest of teachers. Tourism academic programmes should be adapted to teach “strong sustainability”. Environmental sciences professors could be invited to lecture in tourism courses.

This paper is about tourism, visual culture, and imperialism in the post-colonial present. International literature on these issues has been especially focused on the experience of British and French post-colonialism. Few studies have addressed this issue regarding other post-colonial realities. This paper runs counter to that fact by analysing the visual touristic discourse produced in the post-colonial Portugal. The paper examines the way the sub-Saharan Africa is represented in a Portuguese travel photo-magazine -the Blue Travel magazine -so as to verify the extent to which the ideology of colonialism continues to shape the post-colonial touristic discourse in this former colonizing country of the southern Europe. More than 522 photographs were analysed. Using visual methodologies, the paper concludes that many aspects of the photographs contain encoded encomiastic messages of colonialism and participate in a discursive construction of Africa that was clearly shaped by an imperialist gaze. The paper suggests that not only there is an obvious nostalgia for empire in the Portuguese touristic discourse on sub-Saharan Africa, but also that many imperialist myths continue to circulate diffusely within the Portuguese post-colonial society and to shape the way sub-Saharan Africa is touristically imagined.

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Resumo -Nos dois últimos decénios do século XX, as sociedades democrá-ticas desenvolvidas passaram por um conjunto de alterações que envolveram não só mudanças no plano económico, como também no plano societal e político. Uma das mais estimulantes teorias desenvolvidas com o intuito de explicar essas mudanças foi a que desenvolveu a escola regulacionista francesa, teoria essa que aliás tem tido grande acolhimento e tem sido usada na interpretação de numerosos aspectos das sociedades contemporâneas, sobretudo dos que se articulam mais directamente com a economia.Neste artigo, analisa-se um aspecto das transformações ocorridas na esfera política que não tem até à data merecido grande atenção: as mudanças nas polí-ticas culturais. O ensaio que se publica procura primeiro diagnosticar as principais alterações observadas neste campo e verificar até que ponto também estas podem afinal ser interpretadas à luz do quadro teórico a que se aludiu. Finalmente, observam-se as especificidades que neste capítulo o caso português encerra e procuram interpretar-se essas particularidades tendo em conta a condição semiperiférica do país.Palavras-chave : Políticas culturais, Estado-Providência, crise do fordismo, neoliberalismo, Portugal. Abstract -NEW CHALLENGES AND TENDENCIES IN CULTURAL POLICIES: TRENDS IN DEVELOPED DEMOCRACIES AND PORTUGUESE SPECIFICITIES -In the last twenty years of the 20th century, a vast range of interrelated changes took place in the most developed democratic societies, and their effects were felt in the economic as well as in the societal and political areas. One of the most successful theoretical frameworks used since then to interpret and explain all these changes has been the French regulationist school theory.1 Investigação apoiada pelo projecto «Repensar Portugal na Europa. Perspectivas de um país periférico» (PRAXIS XXI 2/2.2/MAR/1743/95).