This article consists of a scientific essay on the main approaches to tourist activity, discussed analytically and systematically on a theoretical basis. This essay aims to contribute to existing knowledge based on tourism, offering discoveries, interpretations, and perspectives, to promote debate within the sector's academic community. We chose to divide the article into three categories: institutional, referr...
This essay comes at a time when much is said and researched about authenticity in tourism and the contact that exists between all players, especially between visited communities and visitors. The study consists of a scientific essay on the main retrospective approaches to the authenticity of tourism and relations between populations, discussed in an analytical and systematic way on a theoretical basis, with the...
Intervenção Social. ISSN 0874-1611. N. 62 (2023).; Este artigo apresenta uma pesquisa sobre a inclusão digital dos idosos como forma de promover a saúde mental e física utilizando a plataforma Sioslife como estudo de caso. A pesquisa foi conduzida com uma amostra de 546 séniores pertencentes a um Município da Região Norte de Portugal. O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar o impacto da utilização da plataforma na ...
We present in this text a chronicle of the event "Intermediate Seminar of the DOUROTUR project" which took place at UTAD (University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro), in Vila Real, the 10th of January 2018. The text presents the main contents of the presentations and debates held between academics, politicians, technicians, entrepreneurs, tourism students and others working in the Douro region. The organization ...
Heritage processes and the consequent tourism development of territories are often subject to discordant ambitions and interests, which result in intense social disputes. In this article we propose to analyze these contentions in the Côa Valley, Portugal. The valorization of the Paleolithic heritage (and tourism) in detriment to the construction of the hydroelectric dam has been the main subject of local disput...
While destination foodscape experience is a subject of growing interest, most studies have been dominated by a management and marketing approach. This theoretical research builds upon current literature on destination foodscape and identifies diverse elements that can influence the destination foodscape experience. The research contributes to different social science fields by drawing a mult...
While destination foodscape experience is a subject of growing interest, most studies have been dominated by a management and marketing approach. This theoretical research builds upon current literature on destination foodscape and identifies diverse elements that can influence the destination foodscape experience. The research contributes to different social science fields by drawing a mult...
Este breve ensaio, de 145 páginas, do Professor Tim Ingold (Universidade de Aberdeen, cf. https://www.abdn.ac.uk/ socsci/people/profiles/tim.ingold), apresenta uma importante reflexão sobre o valor e a importância da antropologia nos dias de hoje. O livro foi publicado em inglês, em 2018, e traduzido para espanhol em 2020. É com base nessa tradução que fazemos a seguinte recensão. O livro está estruturado em 5 ...
Este relatório enquadra-se no projeto DOUROTUR (cf. https://DOUROTUR.utad.pt/). O projeto DOUROTUR pretende colmatar o fosso existente entre as potencialidades turísticas do Douro (NUT-III) e o seu desenvolvimento, ampliando a importância do turismo na economia local. Para tal, a oferta de serviços diferenciadores e promotores de vantagens competitivas (baseada em sinergias entre recursos, como o vinho, o patri...