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Boosting cultural heritage in rural communities through an ICT platform: the Vi...

Rural regions concentrate on themselves a very rich set of ancestral traditions. The perpetuation of such traditions has been achieved through transmission between generations. Unfortunately, all this knowledge is typically elders-centered and it lacks effective processes of digitalization, storage and providing-systems for that all this heritage can effectively be perpetuated through future generations that ar...

Perceção dos residentes face ao impacto do turismo

In tourism the local community are not only one of the most essential element for the destination offer but also the key for its differentiation. The knowledge about their expectation and satisfaction regarding tourism development is extremely important for the development process itself. Based on that statement it was developed an empirical research where the local community perception emerges as the key eleme...

Perceção dos residentes face ao impacto do turismo

In tourism the local community are not only one of the most essential element for the destination offer but also the key for its differentiation. The knowledge about their expectation and satisfaction regarding tourism development is extremely important for the development process itself. Based on that statement it was developed an empirical research where the local community perception emerges as the key eleme...

Touristic experiences the living in the Grandma’s house’ project

The goal of this research is focused on the project “Living in the Grandma's House” which aims to contribute to the fight against desertification of rural areas and to create unique touristic experiences in rural areas of the Inland North of Portugal. After an ethnographic study, two villages in Trás-os-Montes region were identified in which "Grandma’s" with interest and aptitude to receive visitors through a ...

An ICT platform to support cultural heritage in rural communities: the Viv@vó –...

Tourism and manly experience and cultural heritage tourism are growing in tourist’s interests. Rural regions have an untapped potential for this slice of tourism industry. Also, rural regions have an enormous collection of ancestral knowledge. Unfortunately, all this knowledge typically is elderscentered and it lack effective processes of digitalization, storage and providing systems for that all this heritage ...

O paradoxo do Vale do Côa

November 8 1994: Côa Valley, a date to remember.