Recognizing the increasing gap between what is researched in academic communityand what is practiced in industry, this series aims to bring together academic and industry leaders in their respective fields to discuss, exchange, and debate issues critical to the advancement of tourism.The book series intends to not only create a platform for academics and practitioners to share theories and practices with each other, but more importantly to serve as a collaborative venue for meaningful synthesis.
In view of presenting the development of an information system (IS) associated with a real world case and an economic sector, namely tourism, the present article is the result of the methodological development of the scientific research study known as IMPACTUR - Tourism Activity Monitoring and Forecasting Indicators. The system that is the object of the current article is directed at tourism as an emerging sector of the economy geared towards excellence in some regions, thus requiring proper tools that allow decision-makers to acquire all possible slight advantages that are so essential to being the best. The IS formulated for IMPACTUR is one of these tools, innovative in Portugal and abroad, providing statistical information online related to tourism. It should be pointed out that it stores updated and timely information that is processed and made available in an electronic format via a website to all tourism professionals and researchers.
A atual crise economica e financeira colocou os campos de golfe do Algarve numa situacao sem precedente: descida generalizada de receitas (green fees, F&B, …) e acrescimo generalizado de custos (energia, IVA, …). Deste modo, a presente investigacao assume como objetivo central a identificacao e analise das atuais opcoes estrategicas dos campos de golfe do barlavento do Algarve. Conclui-se que os novos modelos organizacionais e de competitividade do golfe no Algarve devem evidenciar o value for money, aprofundar a formacao dos recursos humanos, reestruturar custos e prestar atencao a margem de crescimento que o mercado domestico pode representar. Considera-se que quaisquer medidas que cada campo tome nestes dominios, se tomadas de forma isolada, estao condenadas a um sucesso de curto-prazo, pois num quadro macro de restricoes acrescidas so a cooperacao entre campos suportara a dimensao, eficiencia e competitividade do produto.
Yachting appears as a tourism segment with proven and specific importance for the economic and social development of tourist destinations Every year, thousands of yachts cross the Portuguese waters. Figueira da Foz is a seaside city and a destination with a history connected to tourism activities. Despite having a marina located in the city centre, the number of yachts stopping by is still far from this nautical port maximum capacity. As a reaction, and to change this reality, both local and regional stakeholders have participated in a Delphi panel to find out if yacht tourism has the potential to increase. It has been found that both the destination and its marina have the resources to attract and make this territory a nautical reference, and a strategy has been created. This model may serve as a basis for application in other nautical ports.
This work is about an island (Culatra) placed in the south of Portugal, in the "heart" of Ria Formosa, a Natural Park since 1987. The island constitutes a public place for sustainable production of recreation benefits based on sun & beach. The hypothetical benefit user value estimated with "open-ended format", promotes an understanding and powerful argument for regional decision making. In this evaluation process one has to take into account the free-riding behaviour of some individuals. This behaviour introduces a distortion in the evaluation of the individuals real willingness to pay for and is one of the main causes of inaccuracy in the results obtained with this type of analysis. In this paper we estimate the probability of an individual to have a free-riding behaviour as a function of several individual characteristics and we reevaluate the individuals real capability to pay for based on their fitted probabilities of having a free-riding behaviour.
Abstract The practice of sports by resident communities is a tool for healthy lifestyles, inclusive growth and the promotion of sustainable cities. Nevertheless, the relationship between sport, tourism and recreation still remain an under researched theme. Focusing on the economic pillar of sustainability, this study intends to quantify and analyse the economic costs incurred by families in formal and informal sport practices, as well as the contribution of these activities and related events to the territory’s image projection and attractiveness, by overlapping resident’s and visitor’s perception of sports in the destination. Applied to the municipality of Guimarães (Portugal), this analysis of the sports consumer’s behaviour contributes to filling the gap of knowledge resulting from the studies that, as a rule, exclusively evaluate the investments (supply) and/or the expenses (demand) of events and not the regular practice of sport. A total of 179 questionnaires were applied to residents throughout 2017, through the self-administrate questionnaire method . Findings reveal that residents see sports as one of the factors contributing to the identity of the municipality, underlying motivations for participation as the search for happiness, health, wellbeing, and fun. Expenditures generate multiplier effects in the local economy, allowing to compare growth scenarios. This analysis is a scientific instrument to support territorial innovation and the decision at the local level of public policies for sustainable development, in agreement with objective eight of sustainability defined by the United Nations.
portugues| Num quadro globalizado, em que os territorios competem para atrair e manter habitantes, empresas e visitantes, entre outros publicos, o conhecimento do perfil dos diferentes publicos-alvo torna-se indispensavel para a procura de um modelo de desenvolvimento sustentavel dos territorios, assim como para o aumento da competitividade entre os mesmos. Dando conta de uma investigacao em curso, o presente artigo tem como objetivo tracar o perfil e motivacoes do visitante do Parque Natural do Sudoeste Alentejano e Costa Vicentina, uma area protegida no sul de Portugal, contribuindo, assim, como ponto de partida de conhecimento e base de desenvolvimento de futuras iniciativas de marketing territorial sobre este territorio. EnglishKnowing the profile of the different target markets is vital in pursuing a model of sustainable development for territories, as well as to increase competition between them while recognizing that they compete to attract and retain residents, business and visitors, among other target markets. Exploring an ongoing research, this paper aims to focus on the profile and motivations of the visitors of the Natural Park of Southwest Alentejo and Costa Vicentina, a protected area in the south of Portugal, which may contribute as a starting point to the knowledge and to the development of future place marketing planning in this territory
portuguesA procura turistica efectuada atraves da Internet, reveste-se de uma importância cada vez maior em consequencia do crescimento acentuado do numero de reservas online observado nos ultimos anos, originando inclusive, o surgimento de um novo tipo de viajante: o turista mais experiente, sofisticado e sabio, o qual procura valores excepcionais nas suas viagens. A analise da procura turistica actual nao pode negligenciar as caracteristicas do turismo electronico, uma vez que o volume de compras de produtos turisticos efectuado atraves da Internet e cada vez mais acentuado. Neste contexto, os modelos de dados em painel apresentam-se como abordagem indicada para a analise da procura turistica. Devido as suas caracteristicas, que permitem a utilizacao de dados de series temporais e seccionais, estes modelos possibilitam a inclusao de variaveis sociais e de variaveis observadas ao longo de um periodo de tempo.Os resultados da modelacao e da estimacao da procura turistica, atraves dos dados em painel de grandes dimensoes, permitem concluir que o ambiente tecnologico que envolve a actividade turistica tem incentivado o aumento da procura turistica e que pode ser um dos factores que a determinam na conjuntura que caracteriza a sociedade actual. EnglishTourist demand resulting from the Internet is of increasing importance as a result of the increasing number of online bookings observed in recent years, leading to the appearance of a new type of traveller: a more experienced, sophisticated and wise tourist, who seeks exceptional values on his travels. The analysis of current tourism demand cannot neglect the characteristics of electronic tourism, since the volume of tourism products purchases made via the Internet is becoming more pronounced.In this context, panel data models are a suitable approach for the analysis of tourism demand. Due to their characteristics, which allow the use of time series and cross sectional data, these models enable the use of social variables and observed variables over a period of time.The results reached allow us to conclude that the technological environment that surrounds tourism activity has encouraged the growth of tourism demand and can be one of the factors that determine it in an economic conjuncture that characterizes the current society.
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