Varig's Hotel from the year 2000

monopoly finance capital in the ideology of the military regime in the Amazon (1968 - 1976)

Abstract

This historical study aims to demonstrate how the idealization of the Tropical Manaus hotel, owned by “Companhia Tropical de Hotéis, a subsidiary of the airline “Varig”, synthesized, both ideologically and structurally, the development of tourism in the country under the Brazilian military dictatorship, which began in 1964. Thus, at first, it is highlighted the way in which the construction of the hotel was, before, a local expression of a global process of monopolization and financialization of the tourism sector. And, in a second moment, taking as a reference its revolutionary project, made by architect Sérgio Bernardes, what can be observed is that the construction of Tropical Manaus had a national character, incorporating all the ideological decoys of the military, such as the discourse of national integration. And, for this, the investigation, of a qualitative and exploratory nature, uses documentary research in periodicals from the Digital Hemeroteca of the National Library Foundation and bibliographic review.