Objective: To systematize literature on tourism and tourism in rural areas in Portugal. Methodology: Review of literature on tourism and tourism in rural areas in Portugal that leads us to the respective concepts. Results: Tourism in Portugal could reach approximately 39.5 billion euros in 2024, which will represent around 17.4% of the Gross Domestic Product. Rural and nature tourism in Portugal is a practice t...
Objective: To systematize literature on Tourism and Local Accommodation (AL) in Portugal, in order to extract the main concepts and numbers involved in the topic; Methodology: Literature review and database consultation on tourism and Local Accommodation (AL) in Portugal that leads us to the respective concepts and main numbers; Results: On December 16, 2024, there were 160,412 LA places registered in the natio...
Tourism has developed in the last decade (2011/2020), allowing the growth of different destinations. Therefore, the main objective of this article is to understand the main characteristics of tourism supply and demand in Portugal and identify its importance and contribution to the Portuguese economy, through the comparison of data from 2019 with that from 2022 (pre-Covid-19 and post-Covid-19). In this article, ...
Internationalization strategies are the need of the hour in order to consolidateprofits. The internationalization process is a relevant strategy for companies, has several implications and is influenced by innumerable specific aspects, namely company behavior, culture and structure, especially in the case of SMEs. The furniture companies in Portugal depend on traditional management of their founders thatlacklea...
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) introduced new regulations for banking supervision in December 2010, better known as Basel III recommendations that aimed at guaranteeing the solidity of banks worldwide and the mitigation of new banking crises risks. The European Union transposed these directives through the Credit Review Directives IV (CRD IV). Portugal adopted CRD IV by a new decree-law no. 1...
This paper analyses the impact of the implementation of the Basel III recommendations, using the standard method, in Portugal. For our study, we used the annual reports of 31st of December of 2012, and found out that out of the fourteen banks that published annual reports, only six satisfied the minimum ratios laid out by BCBS. Till 2012, Portuguese banks used an internal ratings method based on the Basel II re...
Social responsibility arises as a measure of the corporate policy that goes beyond the production activity, thus covering also the social and environmental activities. This issue has been gaining importance over time. The number of companies that are implementing socially responsible actions has been growing steadily even though it is still centered on large and medium sized companies. Social responsibility is ...
Este trabalho é uma análise dos efeitos da implementação das últimas recomendações do Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) também conhecidas como o Basel III de 2010 que deverão ser faseadamente implementadas desde 1 de Janeiro de 2013 até 1 de Janeiro de 2019, no capital próprio dos bancos Portugueses. Neste trabalho assume-se que os ativos pesados pelo risco de 2012 mantêm-se constantes e o capital t...
Quando nos lembramos da imensa vida profissional e intelectual de Abel Salazar, lamentamos que, inicialmente, só se tenha dedicado à pintura nos tempos "perdidos" entre a escrita do capítulo de um livro e a chegada ao resultado de uma preparação científica. E isto porque sempre que temos presentes esses seus trabalhos, eles se impõem já como obras de arte elaboradas com uma grande força expressiva e com concret...
Quando nos lembramos da imensa vida profissional e intelectual de Abel Salazar, lamentamos que, inicialmente, só se tenha dedicado à pintura nos tempos "perdidos" entre a escrita do capítulo de um livro e a chegada ao resultado de uma preparação científica. E isto porque sempre que temos presentes esses seus trabalhos, eles se impõem já como obras de arte elaboradas com uma grande força expressiva e com concret...