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“A Little Unspoilt Paradise”: Profile and Practices of Tourism-Related Lifestyl...
Ribeiro, Filipa Perdigão; Torkington, Kate; Rebelo, SandraThis paper investigates the potential of the fairly recent phenomenon of entrepreneurial lifestyle migration, in the context of rural Algarve (Portugal) from the perspective of lifestyle migrant entrepreneurs (LMEs) and their socioeconomic contribution to the development of rural areas. The study focuses on the profile of LMEs who are active in tourism businesses, by analysing the results of an online survey wi...
“A Little Unspoilt Paradise”: Profile and Practices of Tourism-Related Lifestyl...
Ribeiro, Filipa Perdigão; Torkington, Kate; Rebelo, SandraThis paper investigates the potential of the fairly recent phenomenon of entrepreneurial lifestyle migration, in the context of rural Algarve (Portugal) from the perspective of lifestyle migrant entrepreneurs (LMEs) and their socioeconomic contribution to the development of rural areas. The study focuses on the profile of LMEs who are active in tourism businesses, by analysing the results of an online survey wi...
Assessing roles and strategies of public sector stakeholders in an evolving (li...
Eimermann, Marco; Hochedez, Camille; Kordel, Stefan; Morén-Alegret, Ricard; Nijhoff, Karijn; Tomozeiu, Daniel; Torkington, Kate; Weidinger, TobiasThis study focuses on local and regional governments using place-branding strategies to attract intra-EU inward migration for demographic and/or economic purposes. This forms an important aspect of contemporary migration industries, whereby the interlinking of lifestyle, work and economic investment is pivotal. Taking the case of the Emigration Expo event in the Netherlands, it draws on interviews with the orga...
Tourism & Arts: An enduring convergence
Baleiro, Rita; Torkington, KateThis special issue publishes a collection of seven original research papers and one research note on tourism and art in its multiple forms and intersections. To reflect on the association between tourism and arts is to acknowledge that these two fields have converged since the embryonic forms of tourism. Even before the organisation of the tourism industry as we know it nowadays, travellers visited destinations...
Relatório de divulgação dos resultados preliminares do projeto de investigação ...
Torkington, Kate; Ribeiro, Filipa Perdigão; Rebelo, Sandra; Conceição, SusanaT-rELMA é um projeto exploratório, com a duração de 18 meses, iniciado em janeiro de 2022. É financiado pela Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) e conta com uma equipa de investigação internacional composta por nove investigadores. Este relatório surge na sequência do seminário Turismo no Algarve: Sustentabilidade, Competitividade e Empreendedorismo, organizado conjuntamente pelas equipas dos projetos de...
Dissemination report on preliminary findings of the T-rELMA research project ju...
Torkington, Kate; Ribeiro, Filipa Perdigão; Rebelo, Sandra; Conceição, SusanaThis report follows the seminar on Algarve Tourism: Sustainability, Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship, jointly organised by the T-rELMA and IMPACTUR Algarve research project teams at the School of Management, Hospitality &Tourism, University of the Algarve, on 22June 2023.
Reconstructing and examining reality: Literary Tourism, Film-induced tourism & ...
Baleiro, Rita; Torkington, KateThis special issue, which is also the first issue published under the new name of the journal (now called Dos Algarves: Tourism, Hospitality and Management Journal), brings together a collection of original research on literary tourism, film-induced tourism and language: three concepts that can shape and examine reality and are the substance that creates new worlds, portrays landscapes, nurtures emotions and ex...
Conflicting discursive representations of overtourism in Lisbon in the Portugue...
Ribeiro, Filipa Perdigão; Torkington, KatePurposeThis study aims to explore the ways in which Portuguese online news reports and opinion studies have framed the discussion about overtourism in Lisbon and its impacts on the city and its inhabitants. Design/methodology/approachDrawing on critical discourse analysis applied to media texts, this paper discusses the discursive representations of overtourism by focusing on how an emerging new discourse which...
Clouds in the normally sunny sky? The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on Dutch...
Nijhoff, Karijn; Torkington, KateThis article explores the experiences of Dutch B&B and short-term rental property owners in the rural Algarve, Portugal, as a case study on the economic and social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for entrepreneurial lifestyle migrants. The empirical data comes from twelve in-depth interviews with Dutch lifestyle migrants who moved to and settled in the more rural areas of the eastern Algarve and started s...
Whose right to the city? An analysis of the mediatized politics of place surrou...
Torkington, Kate; Ribeiro, Filipa PerdigãoIn view of the proliferation of alojamento local (short-term vacation rentals) in the major Portuguese cities of Lisbon and Porto, along with the recent transformation of the historic city centre neighbourhoods, this study explores the mediatized politics of place by analysing data sets resulting from different, but interconnected, discursive practices. At the level of governance, we examine how legislation has...