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Resilience and sustainable urban tourism: Understanding local communities’ perc...
Brochado, A.; Rodrigues, P.; Sousa, A.; Borges, A. P.; Veloso, M.; Gómez-Suárez, M.This study sought to examine the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic’s impacts on local communities whose residents are directly or indirectly affected by city tourism. Qualitative research was conducted via in-depth interviews and Leximancer software analysis to explore locals’ perceptions in two highly tourism-dependent southern European cities. While the crisis has had predominantly negative impacts on tourism, th...
What’s on the menu? How celebrity chef brands create happiness
Rodrigues, P.; Brochado, A.; Sousa, A.; Borges, A. P.; Barbosa, I.Purpose – This study aims, first, to understand consumers’ perception of chefs as human brands (i.e. study one). Second, tests were run to assess the validity of a new conceptual model of the relationships between the factors of chef image, luxury restaurant image, both images’ congruity and consumers’ hedonic and novelty experiences and happiness and well-being (i.e. study two). Design/methodology/approach – T...
Managing public health spending growth: Public’s views
Araújo, N.; Reis, A.; Borges, A. P.; Rosa, A.The need to guarantee public health spending sustainability remains on the governments’ agenda, despite constant efforts to improve health sector efficiency and to contain health spending growth. In this paper, we analyse citizens’, managers’ and health professionals’ views concerning the choice of alternative National Health Service (NHS)’ financing sources and the selection of priority areas to be financed fr...
COVID-19 vaccine hesitation and brand choice uncertainty
Rodrigues, P.; Borges, A. P.; Brochado, A.; Sousa, A.Purpose: This study aims to examine individual behaviours regarding coronavirus disease-2019 vaccine brands. Design/methodology/approach: Firstly, qualitative research identified the reasons for vaccine hesitancy in relation to specific brands using data gathered from 36 semi-structured interviews and processed with Leximancer software. Secondly, a new conceptual model was developed with data from 917 questionn...