Feliz 2018!

http://www.pasosonline.org/es/articulos/1106-15-4

“The legacy of european capitals of culture to the ´Smartness` of cities: The case of Guimarães 2012”

«ABSTRACT

The objective of the paper is to examine the extent to which the legacy of European Capitals of Culture (ECOC) increases the “smartness” of cities. A qualitative approach based on semi-structured interviews and desk research was used to assess the impact on the smart city's dimensions hypothesized by Giffinger et al. (2007). The research revealed that this kind of mega-event reinforces the smartness of the city in which it is hosted in terms of attributes such as living, economy, people and environment. No significant legacy is observed with respect to the mobility dimension.

KEYWORDS: European capitals of culture, legacy, mega-events, smart cities, urban development »

Susana Bernardino 

J. Freitas Santos

J. Cadima Ribeiro

(reprodução de resumo e palavras-chave de artigo entretanto publicado online em Journal of Convention & Event Tourism, https://doi.org/10.1080/15470148.2017.1400931 )

Festas Felizes!

http://www.apdr.pt/siterper/EN/homeEN.html

The CREATOUR 2nd International Conference - 7, 8 and 9th June 2018

«Dear colleagues

The CREATOUR 2nd International Conference - Emerging and Future Trends in Creative Tourism will take place at University of Minho (Campus of Braga - Northern region of Portugal) on the 7, 8 and 9th June 2018.

The conference is organized within the project CREATOUR: Creative Tourism Destination Development in Small Cities and Rural Areas supported by European funds (through COMPETE2020, POR Lisboa, POR Algarve) and by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (http://www.ces.uc.pt/creatour/).

Until 31 January 2018 is open the Call for Proposal of Abstract that should be submitted at https://goo.gl/forms/h8IjZtFVMJ4Cky8K2

Please see the full call for proposals at https://creatourconference.weebly.com/call-for-proposals.html

For more information about the Conference please use the link 

https://creatourconference.weebly.com/

 

Best regards.

Paula Remoaldo

From CREATOUR team - Lab2PT»

(reprodução de mensagem que me caiu entretanto na caixa de correio eletrónico, proveniente da entidade identificada)

Boas Festas!

Urban Science: special issue (renovação de apelo a proposta de artigos)

http://www.mdpi.com/journal/urbansci/special_issues/Legacy_European_Capitals_Culture

Casa Nobre: um Património para o Futuro, 5º Congresso Internacional / 5th International Congress - programa

Casa Nobre: um Património para o Futuro

5º Congresso Internacional / 5th International Congress

Arcos de Valdevez - Portugal

30 Novembro, 1 e 2 de Dezembro de 2017 / 30 November, 1 and 2 December 2017

Contactos / Information

Morada / Adress: Casa das Artes de Arcos de Valdevez;

4970-433 Arcos de Valdevez, Portugal

Telefone / Phone:  00 351 258 520 520

E-mail: casanobre@cmav.pt

Secretariado / Secretariat: 00 351 916 327 116 (Liliana Monteiro) / 00 351 258 520 529 (Lúcia Costa)

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Congresso-Internacional-Casa-Nobre-317910778636826/

Programa / Program:  https://sites.google.com/site/casanobrecongresso/programa

"Changes in the Guimarães visitors` profile and city attributes perceptions in the post hosting of the 2012 European Capital of Culture"

ABSTRACT

The European Capitals of Culture (ECOC) are the most ambitious European cultural partnership project implemented in Europe, if one looks at its scale. In 2012, for the first time in Portugal, a medium size city hosted it. Guimarães was the chosen one. Three years after hosting the ECOC, it is time to access what has changed as a consequence of it in terms of visitors’ profile and city attributes perceptions. Primary data sources were used, gathered through surveys conducted to the Guimarães tourists in the ex-ante (2010/11) and post-event periods (2015). In analytical terms, we made use of statistical methods allowing to put in evidence the similarities or differences found in what regards the visitors’ profiles and perceptions towards the destination attributes, when looking to the two time periods under scrutiny. In what regards the results gotten, we concluded that a change in the Guimarães visitors’ profile occurred (more balance between men and women; decrease in the amount of tourists aged from 0 to 25 years old and increase in those aged from 46 to 65 years old; and increase of the tourists endowed of lower schooling levels), as well as a notorious evolution in what regards the perceived city attributes. One believes that the empirical results attained are a valuable source of information for tour operators and, mainly, to city planning and managing authorities. 

Key-words: visitors’ profile; destination attributes perceptions; 2012 European Capital of Culture; Guimarães.

Paula Remoaldo

Laurentina Vareiro 

J. Cadima Ribeiro

(Resumo de artigo entretanto publicado em Tourism & Management Studies, Vol. 13, N. 4, 2017, págs. 43-53)

"Evaluating the on-going and ex-post impacts on Braga (Portugal) from hosting the 2012’s European Youth Capital"

Abstract: The primary objective of this paper was to assess the impacts of Braga (Portugal) being the 2012’s European Youth Capital (EYC 2012), as perceived by the residents of the hosting city of Braga and the EYC 2012 event participants. To achieve these goals, two surveys were conducted: an on-going survey (2012 – 110 respondents) and an ex-post survey (2013 - 73 respondents). The comparative analysis enabled us to draw the conclusion that there was a more positive perception of the impacts of the hosting of the EYC 2012 in the ex-post period than in the on-going one. The best indicator of the perception of the effects of the hosting of the mega-event is, surely, the claim commonly expressed by the respondents that the city should apply for hosting similar future mega-events.

Keywords: Perceived impacts, quantitative approach, residents and participants` perceptions, mega-events, European Youth Capital 2012.

Paula Cristina Remoaldo
Márcio Góis
José Cadima Ribeiro

(Resumo de artigo publicado em: PASOS – Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural, Vol. 15, Nº 4, 2017, págs. 769-784)

Urban Science: special issue

http://www.mdpi.com/journal/urbansci/special_issues/Legacy_European_Capitals_Culture

Symposium ´How to recover/heal communities wellbeing and create resilient places from the aches of wild fires?` - call for abstracts

CREATOUR 2nd International Conference - Emerging and Future Trends in Creative Tourism

«Dear colleagues

The CREATOUR 2nd International Conference - Emerging and Future Trends in Creative Tourism will take place at University of Minho (Campus of Braga - Northern region of Portugal) on the 7, 8 and 9th June 2018.

The conference is organized within the project CREATOUR: Creative Tourism Destination Development in Small Cities and Rural Areas supported by European funds (through COMPETE2020, POR Lisboa, POR Algarve) and by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (http://www.ces.uc.pt/creatour/).

Until 29 December 2017 is open the Call for Proposal of Abstract that should be submitted at https://goo.gl/forms/h8IjZtFVMJ4Cky8K2

Please see the full call for proposals at https://www.dropbox.com/s/f7t9leucmtg3dwb/Call-for-Proposals_Conf2018.pdf?dl=0

For more information about the first draft of the Conference please use the link http://www.ces.uc.pt/creatour/.

Best regards.

Paula Remoaldo

From CREATOUR team - Lab2PT»

(reprodução de mensagem que me caiu recentemente na caixa de correio eletrónico)

Apresentação do livro "O legado de Guimarães Capital Europeia da Cultura de 2012: UTAD, 26 de outubro, 11,00 horas

Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro: sessão de apresentação do livro "O legado de Guimarães Capital Europeia da Cultura de 2012: a leitura dos residentes e dos visitantes"

"The planning of tourism on rural areas: the stakeholders` perceptions of the Boticas municipality (Northeastern Portugal)"

Abstract

Most of the strategies developed to “save” rural territories in Europe have not been successful. One of the main problems has been the adoption of the top-down paradigm in the approach to the development of those territories. Portugal is a good example of the difficulty of adopting a bottom-up paradigm. The main objective of this paper is to present the perceptions of the local (including the residents) and regional stakeholders acting at Boticas towards the set of resources available and the development of the tourism industry. Boticas is a Northeastern Portuguese rural low density municipality. Capturing those perceptions, the research aims contributing to the establishment of a more integrated and innovative development strategy and, this way, a more able one in what concerns profiting from the potential associated to the growing of the tourism industry experienced lately by Portugal. The adoption of a mixed-method to proceed to the evaluation of the resources and capturing the perceptions on their tourist potential kept by the different stakeholders is suggested. Empirical data was collected through a survey applied to 373 of its residents and 25 interviews conducted to local and regional actors, supported by an inventory performed of the cultural resources and its capacity of being visited. We could conclude that residents tend to have a very positive perception towards tourism development and that their perceptions largely met the ones of other stakeholders.

Keywords: Rural Development; Tourism Planning; Perceptions; Resources; Tourist Attributes; Stakeholders.

Resumo de artigo publicado em European Countryside, Vol.9, Nº 3, 2017, págs. 504-525 [DOI: 10.1515/euco-2017-0030] (trabalho em co-autoria com Paula Remoaldo, Isabel Freitas, Olga Matos, Hélder Lopes, Maria Dolores Sánchez Fernández e Vitor Ribeiro).