Author(s): Musikyan, Srbuhi
Date: 2016
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/2147
Origin: IC-online
Subject(s): Creative tourism; Seasonality; Sustainable development; Creative events; Creative spaces; Óbidos; Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
Tourism remains one of the most fast growing and important industries in the world. It is hard to underestimate the importance and the spectrum of the benefits that tourism provides. On the other hand, nowadays, the increasing growth of tourism poses a range of challenges and problems that need to be solved. These challenges resonate in the emergence of the so called 'alternative' or sustainable forms of tourism, which deem to be an antidote against the harms the traditional forms of tourism cause to the environment and local communities. These new forms of tourism, among which is creative tourism, are reinforced by the new breed of tourists, who are no longer satisfied with the static offer of tourism but rather prefer the dynamic one. The present research shows on the case of Óbidos the potential of creative tourism to meet these new needs of modern tourists while also solving number of problems that many destinations face, namely seasonality in tourism, as well as how creative tourism contributes to the sustainable development of tourism.
