Em processo de migração. A revista Dos Algarves encontra-se encerrada. Os números publicados entre 1996 e 2024 estão disponíveis em formato PDF integral no Arquivo. Dos Algarves: Tourism, Hospitality & Management Journal (DATHMJ) é uma revista académica da Escola Superior de Gestão, Hotelaria e Turismo (ESGHT) da Universidade do Algarve. Fundada em 1995, a revista recebeu inicialmente o título Dos Algarves. Em 2012, o título foi alterado para Dos Algarves: A Multidisciplinary e-Journal e em 2022, tomou-se a decisão de alterar de novo o título para que melhor refletisse o âmbito da publicação. Os objetivos principais da revista são: (i) Divulgar a produção científica original de investigadores nas áreas disciplinares de turismo, gestão hoteleira, gestão de empresas e áreas associadas; (ii) Criar um espaço de debate académico nacional e internacional sobre as áreas disciplinares referidas acima; A Dos Algarves edita dois números por ano e publica três tipos de trabalhos: artigos científicos (resultantes de investigação empírica e/ou de natureza mais teórica), revisões críticas da literatura e relatórios de investigação. Por favor, consulte o Call for Papers. Todas as submissões são, numa primeira fase, selecionadas pela direção da revista e, numa segunda fase, sujeitas a um processo de dupla revisão anónima efetuada por, pelo menos, dois especialistas. Numa terceira fase, os trabalhos passam por um processo de revisão linguística. A revista publica em português e em inglês e segue uma política de acesso livre. As submissões não envolvem qualquer custo. As afirmações e conceitos emitidos nos trabalhos assinados são da absoluta responsabilidade dos seus autores. Trabalhos originais podem ser submetidos para publicação em qualquer altura do ano; por favor, consulte as Normas de Submissão.
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Politicizing science vs. technicalizing politics: A comparative study of Kastelli Heraklion International Airport, Greece and Chinchero Cusco International Airport, Peru
This paper aims to add to the debate on the negative externalities of tourism-related megaprojects. It examines the policy adoption and implementation of two contentious airport projects in two tourist-heavy regions, Heraklion (Kastelli), Greece, and Cusco (Chinchero), Peru. In the context of destination competitiveness and commitment to neoliberal economic growth, national and regional governments in both countries became attracted by the idea of regional economic development and further increasing the number of international tourists and tourism investments. Deciding whether building a new airport serves the public interest or not is a complex policy problem with technical uncertainties and conflicting interests, which entails both a technical and political process of expressing and pairing policy actors’ goals and means. The aim of the paper is to identify similarities and differences between the tactics adopted and arguments used for and against the two airport development projects by the respective advocacy coalitions.
Chronology of Portugal’s hospitality legislation
Tourism is one of the most important and dynamic sectors of the Portuguese economy. Due to its nature and evolution in the last decades, this sector has seen profound changes in all its areas. The hospitality sector is one of them. For this reason, the legislation regulating accommodation has changed significantly since its origins, but especially in the last decades. This essay collects the successive legal statutes and interprets their evolution. The research proposes a division into five generations concerning the evolution of the regulatory framework for the hospitality sector: the first corresponds with the first law regulating the sector, the second with the beginning of mass tourism in Portugal, the third with the entry into the European Economic Community, the fourth with the massification and internationalisation of Portuguese tourism and, finally, the fifth generation overlaps the globalisation, the consolidation of the internet and the emergence of new and reformulated accommodation realities.
Sagres Promontory – European Heritage Label. The slavery heritage in Lagos
Starting from the issues associated with the European Heritage Label, we go through Edwards Said´s Imaginative Geographies, looking for a new epistemological approach in the way of looking at places, territories and landscapes. In this context, we can see how the heritagescape of Sagres Promontory, with particular regard to the town of Lagos, plays a fundamental role in the epistemological decolonization, first of all through the emphasis given to the heritage associated with slavery there, which can help us in this process. We also observe how the concept of post-memory can help us to deconstruct the imaginative geographies and create more human imaginary geographies, that liberate us from the myth of objectivity of knowledge creation. More than a Slavery Route we propose to take the first steps in the process of mental and epistemological decolonization.
Untiring traveller, the most geographer of poets: Revisiting Camões based on the work of Orlando Ribeiro
This text proposes an appreciation of Orlando Ribeiro’s writing, combining Luís Vaz de Camões’ literature and geography. Based on the geographer’s work, the discussion highlights the relations between the notable poet’s writing and his travels, places and observations of his environment. In this context, the central objective is to revisit the article “Camões and Geography” and answer the questions raised, e.g., what is the investigative ability to understand Camões and its geography? This paper is based on bibliographical research, a methodology focused on the critical analysis of texts. When analysing Ribeiro’s text, results comprehend the relation between the legacy and the fates “Verdes são os campos” and “Soneto Andreia”, poems by Camões.
In search of the literary heritage of Cascais
Despite the growing investment in literary tourism projects throughout the country in recent years, this offer is still too scattered and disorganised in Portugal, given its acknowledged literary wealth. This scenario led to the creation of the Cascais Literary Tour, a project developed as a master’s thesis at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (FLUL), with the decisive support of the Cascais Municipality. Based mainly on documentary research, it was a quest for the local literary heritage that culminated in the birth of a new tourist experience. Today, the Cascais Literary Tour can be followed independently, with the help of the material available online or with the free assistance of a guide. The first results showed that the lack of coordination between culture and tourism, highlighted in previous studies on the subject, had extended to the municipal level. Consequently, there is room for improvement in the dialogue. Although the Cascais Literary Tour was officially launched at the end of 2019, it has already inspired master’s students at the Estoril Higher Institute for Hotel and Tourism Studies (ESHTE). They have added a gastronomic component to the existing route with their A Taste of Cascais project, with special gastro-literary events held in 2021, 2022 and 2023. If the recognition of the literary value of a place is based on the importance attached to a lively interpretation of the literary heritage, we can say that this principle has been respected in these initiatives, reinforcing the conviction that it is essential to go beyond the text and give to the literary experience a performative component.
A critical examination of film tourism planning and management in Portugal
Film tourism has gained significant notoriety in recent years, emerging as a prominent phenomenon to promote destinations, attract visitors, and stimulate economic and social development. Despite Portugal's popularity as a filming destination, the extent to which film tourism in Portugal is planned and managed is currently unknown. Thus, this research examines the current provision and implementation of strategies for planning and managing film tourism at a national and regional level in Portugal through a quantitative content analysis approach to understand existing tourism planning and management strategies in Portugal. General findings revealed a lack of planning for film tourism at national and regional levels. Although some regions appear to promote film tourism, no transparent efforts are being made to plan for or manage its development or impacts sustainably. As such, there is a need for a more strategic and sustainable approach to planning and managing film tourism at regional and local levels. This could ensure that destinations harness, in the long-term, the multifaceted benefits that can be derived from film tourism while also ensuring that the negative implications of film tourism activities are minimized or mitigated to preserve the sustainability and competitiveness of the film tourism industry.
Celebrities enhance food tourism: a chef in the city or a city by the chef?
In recent decades, previous studies have devoted increasing attention to the relationship between celebrities and tourism, due to their influence on travel behaviors. Based on the literature on celebrity-induced film tourism, chefs have emerged as a source of celebrity-induced gastronomic tourism, which values ​​food as art. This research note is based on a case study focused on the culinary empire of Karlos Arguiñano in Zarautz (Basque Country, Spain). The results show that celebrity chefs are powerful cultural and social agents who have developed their own brands and influence on food consumption, as exemplified by the case of Karlos Arguiñano and his businesses in Zarautz, consolidating it as a gastronomic destination. This research innovatively illustrates the potential of celebrity chefs for the development of gastronomic tourism.
Identity experiences on the Portuguese Coastal Way to Santiago.
Given the growing popularity and increasing interest in the Portuguese Coastal Way to Santiago in recent decades, and especially in recent years, this article aims to understand the cultural and aesthetic experience that unfolds along this specific route, focusing on northwestern Portugal as its fieldwork. The article cross-references diverse sources to understand the historical and patrimonial aspects of this important – and emerging – cultural itinerary. Adopting a distinctly qualitative approach, it uses documentary and content analysis, as well as interviews and research with pilgrims, particularly in the communities of Labruge and Rates, to which we add testimonies collected from the official website of the coastal route. The ultimate goal is to understand to what extent this tourism product can constitute an opportunity for the enjoyment of new aesthetic experiences.
Exoticism and Hostility in "A Year in Algeria, Excursions and Remembrances" (1887)
Illustrated travelogues about French-colonized territories in North Africa disseminated, through images and texts, stereotypes that defined their inhabitants as "barbarians," "apathetic," and "sensual"—among other unflattering adjectives—and contributed to justifying the "civilizing" colonialism of the great European powers. Based on this premise, this article presents an analysis of the travelogue *A Year in Algeria*, written in 1887 by the Frenchman M.-J. Baudel. Our analysis of the work, which understood texts and images as discourses—as conceived by Michel Foucault—led us to the conclusion that travelogues reveal how hostility and hospitality are confused and mixed in these illustrated accounts intended to stimulate travelers, making this intricate relationship between colonizers and colonized a relevant part of the constitution of the tourist imaginary about the colonized territories.
Visitors' perception of art museums affiliated with the Brazilian Institute of Museums.
This study applied data extraction and textual analysis techniques to a qualitative database containing information from comments on the specialized tourism social media platform TripAdvisor, aiming to analyze the discourse of visitors to nine art museums affiliated with the Brazilian Institute of Museums, located in five states: Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Goiás, and Santa Catarina. The methodology developed in this article presents defensible and reproducible criteria that can be replicated in other types of museums and cultural attractions rated on TripAdvisor, broadening the understanding of visitors' perceptions of art museums. The qualitative database was analyzed using the free software Iramuteq and Gephi, designed for textual analysis and data processing. The results showed that the majority of reviews are positive and that the quality of the collections and the architectural aspects of the buildings were the items most frequently cited by visitors.
Tourism as a driver of Angolan handicrafts.
Tourism and handicrafts form a symbiosis of recognized relevance and inspiration for this study, which aims to demonstrate the influence of tourism on the development of handicrafts in Angola. Tourism has a significant impact on the handicraft industry, as tourists are the main target of this industry when seeking souvenirs that reflect local history and culture. Handicrafts, whether decorative or ornamental, are the most purchased souvenirs by visitors. To better explain this phenomenon, a qualitative methodology was used. The research was conducted in Angola, in the municipalities of Talatona and Belas, more precisely, at the Morro dos Veados arts center, the Higher School of Art of the University of Luanda, and the School of Hospitality and Tourism of Agostinho Neto University. Five individuals linked to the area of ​​handicrafts and tourism were interviewed. After content analysis, it was possible to draw some conclusions. Tourism is considered very important for the development of the handicraft center, which, in turn, plays a role as a tourist attraction and disseminator of culture and traditions. Tourism can also contribute significantly to handicrafts and serve as a source for disseminating the history and culture of peoples. Handicrafts, in turn, reflect the regional cultural identity of each multicultural space that diversifies the country – each province is unique. There is, therefore, a wealth of opportunities in terms of tourism that urgently need to be explored in order to contribute to the development of handicrafts.
The Lazgisphere and tourism in the thirdspace
This paper applies the concept of Soja’s Thirdspace to the phenomenon of Lazgi dance and tourism in Uzbekistan. In doing so it analyses the different levels of perception (including Firstspace and Secondspace) of Lazgi and tourism via an autoethnographic lens. Complemented by expert interviews, the interaction of Lazgi and tourism is examined and characteristics of the Lazgisphere (world of Lazgi) in Uzbekistan are distilled. The results show that Lazgi is often directly or indirectly connected with tourism in Uzbekistan, but even more so serves to reaffirm national identity.
Lighthouses, Literature and Tourism. The Greek Case.
Linking literature with tourism can play a key role for preserving and promoting cultural heritage associated with literary production. Many towns and cities around the globe have become literary landmarks because of their association with acclaimed writers and their work. Literary lovers are attracted to the actual sites depicted in literature or other locations related to literary production, e.g. authors’ residences or sepulchers. The essay presents examples of literary heritage valorization by national and international organizations. It also explains the tourism potential of Greek traditional lighthouses through the findings of a quality research that focused on the cultural capital they represent. Literature and oral storytelling regarding Greek lighthouses, in combination with their magnificent history, architecture and landscape, have surrounded them with a spiritual aura that appeals to sophisticated tourists. The paper illustrates the reasons for a strategic incorporation of lighthouse literary tourism in the Greek tourism product.
Art, history and tourism: The role of the travelling artist
The scope of this theoretical study is centred on the analysis of artistic practices developed during travel, focusing on the construction of the relationship between art and travel from the 16th century to the present. In order to do this, a historical perspective focuses on the journey to Italy, the obligatory destination for travellers in the modern era. From the nineteenth century onwards, contemporary artists sought to observe how travel became an artistic discourse. The term 'artourist' is introduced as a description of the artist who is a traveller and a developer of artistic projects. The research followed the methodology of virtual curatorship, which subjectivises and expands a reflective body of works of art and tourism. This article promotes the argument that tourism, despite the veiled pejorative connotation of academic profiles of the visual arts, can be an essential mechanism for artistic creation and imagination. In defence of free-thinking, this article presents an expanded reflection, pointing to theories and cases that reveal the contributions of the relationship between art and tourism as two complex systems through its protagonist: the travelling artist.
A study of the core principles underlying the mountain tourism phenomenon
Human urbanization began around 13,000 years ago in lowland areas along rivers due to favourable conditions for survival and productivity. In contrast, mountainous regions, with their difficult accessibility and dangers, were initially avoided. However, mountains have always been revered as sacred in various religions and hold profound significance for humanity as places for physical, emotional, and spiritual exercise or relaxation. Since the 1860s, mountain tourism has emerged from human interaction with mountains, reflecting the evolution of human behaviour. Mountain tourism is studied across various scientific fields, intersects with other niches, such as sports, hiking, religion, adventure, and health tourism, and involves tourists, locals, entrepreneurs, and volunteers. The literature research reveals conflicting approaches in proposed methods, such as prioritizing funding for modern infrastructure versus fostering empathy and human connections. Additionally, the terminology of mountain tourism is ambiguous and includes expressions such as active, smart, responsible, ecological, and meaningful tourism. This study aims to identify the core principles of mountain tourism to clarify these conflicts and promote a holistic approach to challenges like sustainable development and seasonality.
Heritage, cultural maintenance and tourism: A study of the traditional embroidery in Ouro Preto – MGThis article presents a study on the embroidery workshop held in Ouro Preto/MG and seeks to understand the practice of embroidery and its importance for cultural heritage, as well as possibilities for economic, social and creative tourism development. Taking a qualitative approach of a descriptive-exploratory nature, bibliographic and documentary research was used as a first step in the methodology. Data were also collected through observations and semi-structured interviews with research subjects. The justification for the research lies in the importance of discussing cultural heritage and its appreciation, analysing the possibilities of promoting, supporting and preserving the embroiderers' craft. The results showed that embroidery is a practice carried out as a group, where subjects can share processes and results, exchange experiences, and experience collective creation, demonstrating the existence of new paradigms of the art of embroidery, which integrate tradition and modernity in a unique way.
This article presents a study on the embroidery workshop held in Ouro Preto/MG and seeks to understand the practice of embroidery and its importance for cultural heritage, as well as possibilities for economic, social and creative tourism development. Taking a qualitative approach of a descriptive-exploratory nature, bibliographic and documentary research was used as a first step in the methodology. Data were also collected through observations and semi-structured interviews with research subjects. The justification for the research lies in the importance of discussing cultural heritage and its appreciation, analysing the possibilities of promoting, supporting and preserving the embroiderers' craft. The results showed that embroidery is a practice carried out as a group, where subjects can share processes and results, exchange experiences, and experience collective creation, demonstrating the existence of new paradigms of the art of embroidery, which integrate tradition and modernity in a unique way.
Transforming tourism governance: An essential evolution
The aim of this article is to justify the need to introduce certain changes in tourism governance in this post-pandemic period and in what direction; a complex research question will be addressed by focusing on one of its aspects: the role of local communities. More than governance, the word more extensively used today is co-governance, but only with two actors: public administrations and business organisations. Cooperation between them is necessary but not sufficient because they are not the only actors involved in this industry. An alliance with citizens is essential so that social sustainability is possible and the proliferating outbreaks of tourism-phobia, which are not against tourism, but against certain models and forms of its growth, can be avoided or reversed. In a mature democratic society, should the type of tourism development for a territory be decided without the direct participation and adherence of those who permanently reside there?
The internationalization of the hotel industry in Madeira, Algarve and the Balearic Islands regions
The article examines the degree of internationalization of hotel companies, based on the assumption that high performance improves their competitive positioning and that of the regions in which they operate. Methodologically, we collected data characterizing hotel internationalization, insertion in international consortia, and the ability to attract international chains to the regions. Interviews with hotel directors were conducted. The results show that the Balearic region has the most internationalized companies. Madeira made an internationalization effort at the beginning of the 21st century; however, only the Pestana group has shown dynamism since then. The Algarve is competitive in attracting international brands but has the least successful level of international insertion. The comparative analysis shows that it is necessary to develop proactive measures that help prepare the future competitiveness of these regions through the internationalization of their companies. In addition, international chain hotels have been detected in consortiums. This positioning seems to be original in the literature, so we propose this line for investigation.
The poster in the tourist representations of the Portuguese territory: From the beginnings until the establishment of the Estado Novo regime (1890-1933)
Assuming that events, like monuments and landscapes, are one of the dimensions used to stimulate a symbolic investment in the image of the territory and the consequent creation of a particular tourist destination, the aim of this paper is to demonstrate the relevance of event posters and their complementary role in promoting these same destinations, which is what travel posters are mainly geared towards. Analysing the time axis allows us to take a diachronic approach, highlighting the evolution of themes and representation processes on these two types of posters, from the prototourism phase at the end of the 19th century to the establishment of the Estado Novo regime. The analysis of the spatial aspect emerges as a variable capable of helping to understand the choices made for the representation of tourist sites, with options of repeated promotion contrasting with others of systematic silencing. In turn, analysing the articulated combination of textual and iconic elements ends up providing some of the main guidelines for the narrative conveyed by tourist posters during the First Republic, with repercussions that were magnified in the Second Republic.
Rural lodging in Brazil as sign of collectivization and socialization
Studies of lodgings have not been based on spatial attributes of academic investigations as a sign for collectivization and socialization, which are premises for consensus on solutions to social demands. The objective of this research was to demonstrate collectivization and socialization in rural lodging spaces in Brazil. The methodology was characterized as qualitative and descriptive, using bibliography and sources in primary and secondary data, space reading in loco and photographs of the research object spaces as support for spatial reading. The collected data were described in the light of the Peircean Semiotic, in its concept of abduction, followed by the Assembly Theory of Walter Benjamin. The results demonstrate collectivization and socialization in spaces of rural lodgings in the studied object (Espaço Rural Clarear, Camboriú, SC, Brazil), indicating spaces for civic actions and decisions of social demands in rural spaces in Brazil.
Tourist cities in the pre-pandemic period under media scrutiny: The cases of Lisbon and Oporto
The transformations that took place in the historic centres of Lisbon and Porto due to the tourist boom could not have failed to fascinate the Portuguese media, becoming a fertile ground for the debate of ideas that, between 2014 and the end of 2019, followed all the incidents of two cities that, from peaceful urban centres, became cities heading towards tourist overcrowding. In order to approach the documentary corpus consisting of 120 texts published in the Portuguese media in the period above, our study took content analysis as theoretical-methodological support. Seeking to frame some theories that intend to explain the intolerance towards the predominant tourist model in many urban destinations and taking into account the opinions expressed in the texts under analysis regarding the perceptions of the residents of these cities in a context of overtourism, this paper demonstrates the existence of antagonistic positions between a certain intelligentsia linked to urbanism, ecology and sustainable tourism that actively opine in the media discourse and a set of institutional actors with high responsibilities in the areas of tourism and municipal management.
Movie-Induced Tourism: New Zealand and the UK, an EEG case study
This study on film tourism aims to evaluate the impact of films on the attractiveness of tourist destinations, namely on the intention of spectators to visit, leading to the following research question: Which film/country arises the greatest interest in visitors, and which could subsequently be presented as an example to be used in project design? To that end, two destinations represented in three fantasy genre sagas were selected: The United Kingdom and the Harry Potter films, and New Zealand and The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films. The instruments used for data collection were an EEG study where six variables were analysed (involvement, stress, interest, focus, excitement, and relaxation), a questionnaire and a survey. The results showed a strong relationship between all variables, and the chosen destination for a remote tourist experience was New Zealand with the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit sagas.
The impacts of crime TV series on the formation of the image of tourist destinations
Tourism continues to be one of the sectors that has undergone the biggest changes. Cinema has played an important role in tourism, offering not only visits to the filming locations of series and films, but also allowing tourists to experience the atmosphere of cinematographic production. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the impacts of crime television series on the formation of the image of cities as tourist destinations. We analyzed 929 reviews made by viewers of eight crime television series available on the IMDb platform (Commissario Montalbano, Shetland, Unauthorized living, Gomorra, Dogs of Berlin, Marseille, Trapped and Sky Rojo), between October 2021 and February 2022. The series were positioned within four typologies based on the contrast between the organic image of the destination and the impact of the series on the image of the destination: positive congruence, positive incongruity, negative congruence and negative incongruity. The Marseille, Gomorrah, Shetland and Dogs of Berlin series are in the group of series which viewers' comments do not express an intention to visit or recommend a visit to the destination. The results showed that when the destination is portrayed in a negative way in the series, it can have significant impacts on the image and influence the tourist behaviour of viewers. The case of the Gomorra series is one of the most illustrative in which the series inhibited the development of tourism.
The tourist imaginary in Portugal at a glance: A mitanalysis
This article aims to analyze the image of Portugal in the narrative of the biographical and non-fictional experiences of Maria Rattazzi, author of Portugal at a glance. This analysis also seeks to understand and identify symbolic images of the country using as analytical support the mythical Portuguese imaginary diagnosed by the anthropologist Gilbert Durand, with an analytical methodology called myth-analysis by the theorist, which seeks to identify myths, archetypes and symbols. With this interpretative reading, we could observe how it is possible to find clues to the founding myths of the imaginary of a culture and how this underlies the construction of a tourist imaginary of a destination.
The literary events and the creative processes in Vale do Paraíba (São Paulo, Brazil): conceptions and achievements
The programming of cultural events (literary festivals) in the cities of Vale do Paraíba (São Paulo, Brazil) often includes the participation of local literary authors. Thus, this paper intents to analyse how the participant fiction authors and poets articulate their creative process to these events. The main objective is to understand if and how the participation in these events impacts the fictional and poetic creation, the entry into the publishing circuit and the possibility of reaching and dialoguing with more readers. To understand this cultural phenomenon, the research is guided by the theoretical conceptions of Candido (2000) and Even-Zohar (2013), about literary systems, and Schollhammer (2009), about contemporary literature. The results reveal that these events represent for the authors the possibility to divulge their works and have contact with the readers, although they express that the creative process is not always impacted by the contact with the public.
Literary hotels: A new type of literary tourism or just a product?
The study aims to evaluate the status of literary hotels in literary tourism and to discuss whether literary hotels are just a literary tourism product or should be a separate type of literary tourism. The study seeks to answer the following questions: 1) What are the literary connections of literary hotels? 2) What kind of experience do literary hotels promise according to the themes chosen? Document analysis, which is one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the research to gather data. The data used in this study include 57 hotel websites which provided information in English regarding the hotel’s literary connection on their website. Five different types of literary hotels have been found as literary-themed hotels, hotels associated with an author, hotels dedicated to an author, hotels associated with a fictional work or a character, and library hotels. The findings of the study show that literary hotels are not a single type of tourism product, but a wide-ranging type that offers a variety of products and experiences to multiple target audiences under different categories.
Practices of literary tourism: A systematic literature review
Literary tourism is characterized by visits to places and landscapes related to writers' life and literary work. This study aims to analyze literary tourism practices discussed in scientific production. This study conducted a systematic literature review based on a preliminary protocol and PRISMA statement supported by the software StArt (UFSCAR/Lapes). The search string "literary tourism" was used in the Scielo, Scopus, and Web of Science databases. The analytical corpus was composed of 33 articles. The investigated literature indicates that the practices: i) take place in various geographical contexts, being led by European countries and China; ii) are structured from sightseeing, tours and visits and, in a spontaneous way, when the tourist encounters visual landmarks of literary references; iii) the diffusion happens from tourist guides and maps, and also popularized by the audiovisual industry. The results infer two other factors: firstly, the houses of the writers are valuable environments for literary tourism: they are often transformed into museums that guarantee the safeguarding of memory and allow educational and tourist visitation; and second, the diverse literary places and landscapes, which combine those places associated with writers and works, imply in multidisciplinary initiatives for the development of literary practices and are presented as opportunities for tourism planning and management.
At the dawn of the automobile: The relevance of roads to tourism in the 1920s
In a turbulent period for Portuguese history such as the 1920s, the development of the car use and tourism went hand in hand. However, this union was ephemeral, lasting for less than a decade. The results in the development of tourism and accessibility proved to be poor, keeping the country behind when compared to other European countries. With the change in the political regime, the political organization also changed, separating the entities responsible for road development and tourism.
Cafes and Tourism in the backyards of the historic centre of the City of Goiás (Brazil)
This work analyses the attractiveness of contemporary cafes and bistros in historic urban backyards in the City of Goiás, Brazil, which are places of meetings, social gatherings, book presentations and other small events. These cafés are located in a municipality known for outstanding cultural elements, such as poetry, gastronomy, heritage and religion. Therefore, this article departs from multiple qualitative data (enhanced by participant observation) and in loco observations (fieldwork) to carry out research during the New Coronavirus (Sars-CoV-2) pandemic in 2020-2021. The findings reveal that Café Jasmim is a space for showing the work of local artists, which reinforces art as an essential local tourism component and Cora Café and Bistrô as a place of cultural, literary and creative experiences for visitors. The paper also presents the threats and prospects for commercial establishments at this tourist destination.
The relationship between the destination experience and the quality of life of digital nomads
Digital nomads work virtually and travel constantly, looking for experiences in a destination they want to know. As it is a recent lifestyle, there is a theoretical gap in the understanding of this new type of tourist. The objective of this research is to investigate the relationship between the destination experience and the quality of life of digital nomads. An investigation structured in two phases was developed: (1) literature review and (2) quantitative research. A questionnaire survey in English was distributed via Facebook groups, aimed at digital nomads, as well as on the NomadList platform and in this group's Slack communities. The data analysis consists of sample characterization, exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, structural model and non-linear relationship. It was possible to verify that there is a relationship between the travel experience and the quality of life of digital nomads, and the most salient dimensions of the quality of life of digital nomads, in order of importance, are: health and work (equally), spirituality, social/family, leisure, environment and, finally, material.