Alexandra Rodrigues Gonçalves

University of Algarve | UALG · CinTurs – Research Centre for Tourism, Sustainability and Well-being

Creative tourism has emerged as a transformative force in the realm of tourism, promising to enhance not only economic outcomes but also the quality of life (QoL) of destination communities. However, the specific impact of creative tourism on the QoL of its workforce, specifically in older artisans, remains understudied. This research aims to fill...

A emergência de uma agenda tecnológica, que ultrapassa os meios informáticos e abrange todas as dimensões da sociedade, tem determinado novas práticas de lazer, bem com o consumo cultural e turístico, incluindo crescentemente novas interfaces digitais. Os itinerários turísticos e culturais virtuais emergem numa relação crescente com o património cu...

A Educação para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável constitui um instrumento fundamental para atingir os Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável formulados pelas Nações Unidas, requerendo-se uma pedagogia transformadora centrada nos educandos que os envolva em processos de reflexão e orientados para a ação. É neste contexto que se apresenta uma experiên...

Creative Tourism working definition.

This international case study book provides 23 expertly curated case studies on entrepreneurship and innovation in tourism, each with detailed implementation instructions for the instructor to maximise student participation and learning. The dynamic characteristic of the tourism industry under the influence of mi-cro and macro environment factors r...

This document provides a summary of publications produced by the ATLAS Cultural Tourism Research Group from 1991 to date. For more details about the group and the research programmes it has developed, please go to: https://www.richardstourism.com/atlas-cultural-tourism-project

Creative tourism has a potential role in promoting social benefits for communities and social inclusion of artisans; however, studies investigating this are lacking. This paper contributes to filling this gap in the literature by exploring the role of creative tourism in combating social exclusion among older artisans in the context of Loulé Criati...

Creative tourism has a potential role in promoting social benefits for communities and social inclusion of artisans; however, studies investigating this are lacking. This paper contributes to filling this gap in the literature by exploring the role of creative tourism in combating social exclusion among older artisans in the context of Loulé Criati...

In order to complement the regular INVTUR 2024 conference programme with the discussion of emerging topics in tourism research, the Organising Committee encourages submissions for various thematic sessions in English.

HoST Lab is an integrative approach that aims to innovate based on Mediterranean diet (MD) creating new products, services, and experiences, involving producers and distributors. The lab research also aims to know the emotions and sensations associated with eno-gastronomic experiences of the Mediterranean diet and their welcome among visitors-touri...

Urban Tourism is a major economic and social activity and the cultural dimension of cities is one of the main factors that attracts visitors. Nonetheless, urban tourism is rarely included within the scope of local planning activities. This work aims to evaluate the existence of cultural tourism in the towns of faro and Silves and propose means of f...

The empirical research on creative tourism (CT) is expanding, having already reached a considerable maturity. Nevertheless, there is no detailed map of the empirical research on CT, which provide us thorough information on various aspects that structure it, such as research methods, settings and participants, and main themes addressed in the conclu...

Supplementary material of the Empirical Research on Creative Tourism - A Systematic Review, published in the Journal of Tourism & Development, 41, 2023

O património cultural constitui-se como um dos ativos mais preciosos dos territórios. Para além da sua conservação e salvaguarda, a sua valorização e a implementação de uma estratégia integrada são fundamentais. O património é reconhecido hoje como fundamental para a construção social, mas também para o encontro de referências culturais que sejam p...

Subjects: Anthropology Contributor: Alexandra Rodrigues Gonçalves, Laura Lou Peres Dorsch "Digital travel" refers to how we use digital tools to organize, manage and even enjoy travel experiences. So "digital tourism" harnesses all the tools of digital transformation to change the way we travel and how the industry itself operates. Nowadays tourism...

Os destinos turísticos utilizam cada vez mais as imagens do património como forma de afirmação da sua identidade, ao mesmo tempo que se assiste a um aumento da procura interna deste tipo de ofertas, agora alargadas a outras camadas populacionais. Ainda que este tipo de turismo se tenha desenvolvido de forma equilibrada ao longo da primeira metade d...

Social inclusion, QoL and Creative tourism

Cultural tourism is today a phenomenon identified with a growing market that encompasses a set of diverse activities that changed from its dimension to its concept in consideration as “mass consumption”. Cultural tourism was assumed as an autonomous category in the 1980s, a period in which tourist consumption of cultural heritage was consolidate...

O projeto CREATOUR funcionou como fase de investigação e desenvolvimento, com vista à catalisação de uma rede de promotores de turismo criativo que, a nível local, mas simultaneamente conectados a nível nacional, trabalharam na conceção, projeção, testagem e implementação da sua oferta em cidades de pequena dimensão e zonas rurais de todo o país. O...

O livro "CREATOUR: Catalisando o turismo criativo em cidades de pequena dimensão e em áreas rurais", resulta do trabalho desenvolvido no âmbito do projeto CREATOUR, que envolveu cinco centros de investigação e 40 organizações que conceberam e implementaram projetos-piloto de turismo criativo em quatro regiões do país: Norte, Centro, Alentejo e Alga...

The digitalization of cultural routes and virtual storytelling has emerged as a way of showcasing to individuals the heritage of different cultural universes. Regarding this fractional environment, and as a by-product of the international EU funded iHERITAGE project, (B_A.2.1_0056), the goal is to create, through an innovation-driven growth process...

In Portugal, the project CREATOUR-Creative Tourism Destination Development in Small Cities and Rural Areas has been working with a range of cultural/creative organizations (pilots) that are implementing new creative tourism experiences in the Portuguese territory. To improve their offers , CREATOUR carried out, between April 2017 and May 2019, a se...

The line that joins. Cultural manager, journalist and entrepreneur, specialized in transnational cooperation and european projects. Has developed cultural initiatives in cooperation with over 25 countries in Europe and the Middle East. A vision for the future created from the inside out could be limited in scope and capability, due to being ti...

Establishing joint models for management and planning of cultural heritage between heritage and tourism stakeholders is a long-standing ambition. The ways in which the local community is involved in this process is also a subject of research in approaches that seek sustainable and participatory tourism development, and that desire a responsible use...

A great diversity of definitions of creative tourists exist, ranging from those who refer to visitors of dance, art, or handicraft workshops, to those who include people who take up temporary artistic resi�dences to practice their creative expression and develop their art forms. In recent decades, we have observed the emergence of a new genera...

Cultural Sustainability

Nowadays,tourists considertheirmobiledevices anessential accessoryfortheorganizationandrealization of their travel, before, during and after the visit. Such devices allow them to search for information about points of interest, services, and/or products in real-time. Thus, mobile devices come to be considered essential tools to support decision-mak...

This book provides a synthesis of current research and international best practice, including practitioner perspectives and a range of case study examples. It covers types of creative tourist, trends, designing and implementing creative tourism products, embedding activities in a community and place, and addressing sustainability challenges.

This book provides a synthesis of current research and international best practice, including practitioner perspectives and a range of case study examples. It covers types of creative tourist, trends, designing and implementing creative tourism products, embedding activities in a community and place, and addressing sustainability challenges.

This book provides a synthesis of current research and international best practice, including practitioner perspectives and a range of case study examples. It covers types of creative tourist, trends, designing and implementing creative tourism products, embedding activities in a community and place, and addressing sustainability challenges.

A evolução do conceito de interpretação ao longo dos tempos está associada ao progresso da investigação, ao desenvolvimento sustentado do património como recurso turístico e às tendências dos novos consumos dos turistas, e dos visitantes em geral, dos espaços naturais e culturais. Este capítulo pretende sistematizar os elementos que integram a i...

Resumo | Este artigo estabelece como objetivo avaliar o potencial de Coimbra para o desenvolvimento do nicho do turismo literário através de uma abordagem pelo lado da oferta. Apresenta-se a metodo-logia utilizada e as diferentes fases da investigação, bem como os resultados obtidos até ao momento, salientando-se a constatação do baixo número de pr...

Presentation of "A literary map for Coimbra" at the "Coimbra with all the Letters" Symposium.

Este artigo insere-se na continuidade da publicação “Museus, Turismo e Sociedade – uma reflexão” (Gonçalves, 2017) e utiliza os resultados obtidos no âmbito da investigação do doutoramento em Turismo na Universidade de Évora relativos à mesa redonda promovida entre profissionais dos Museus e do Turismo, bem como, a análise de conteúdo das entrevist...

Literary places have been widely recognized as tourist destinations. The present article aims: (i) to situate Coimbra in the context of cultural tourism and literary tourism in Portugal; (ii) to present the results of the inventory of literary tourism products existing in Coimbra; (iii) to present the results of the inventory of literary places in...

Although cultural tourists increasingly seek to experience cultural events actively and to directly engage in creative activities, empirical knowledge about the creative tourist remains limited. This study aims to characterize the motivations and profile of creative tourists. The data was collected through a survey of participants in creative touri...

Description: Tourism is an economic and social phenomenon that is centered on a tourist's experience and is dependent on the experiences that are co-created and provided to tourists. Tourism destination managers must understand what tourists perceive as engaging, intense, and memorable in order to remain successful. However, care must also be given...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the relevance of developing literary tourism in Coimbra. Design/methodology/approach This exploratory qualitative research identifies existent resources and development potential of literary tourism. The instruments of data collection were bibliographic research, questionnaires, interviews and pa...

Al-Mutamid é uma personagem mítica na história do al-Andalus cuja vida despertou o interesse de especialistas e do público em geral. Viveu em Portugal, Espanha e Marrocos, onde acabou por morrer no exílio imposto pela poderosa dinastia Almorávida. A rota al-Mutamid estende-se de Lisboa a Granada, passando por Huelva e Sevilha. É uma das estradas ma...

Índice 4 Preface 5 About CREATOUR Basic principles 9 What is creative tourism? A retrospective view 13 How to Boost Creativity / Be Creative 15 Why creative tourism cannot be disconnected from culture? 18 Pillars of Creative Tourism 20 Tourism in Small Cities and Rural Areas The CREATOUR Experience 24 CREATOUR: a theoretical-practical approach 26 O...

Creative tourism is characterized by the opportunity that gives visitors to develop their creativity through active participation in learning experiences that are characteristic of their destination. That implies a relationship between visitors and residents in which the exchange of knowledge is central. Being an interactive process, the learning a...

Abstract: The reflection about the Fortress of Sagres - the main monument of the Algarve - is associated with many different issues, such as: territory policies, landscape, sustainable development, cultural reconstruction and with the enormous challenge of capitalizing the community as usual heritage user The cultural sustainability of the monument...

Resumo Al-Mutamid é uma personagem mítica na história do al-Andalus cuja vida despertou o interesse de especialistas e do público em geral. Viveu em Portugal, Espanha e Marrocos, onde acabou por morrer no exílio imposto pela poderosa dinastia Almorávida. A rota al-Mutamid estende-se de Lisboa a Granada, passando por Huelva e Sevilha. É uma das estr...

The last tuna enclosure that closed in the Algarve today is the renowned Albacora Hotel in Tavira, the former Arraial Ferreira Neto, which ended as many years ago as I have of life. We are told by the journalistic piece of Idálio Revez,that today are the Spanish and the Japanese that dominate the market, introducing new methods of capture (having r...

O mundo mudou e a informação digital carecia de um tratamento adequado há algum tempo Foi aprovada, no dia 26 de Março, no Parlamento Europeu, uma nova diretiva sobre os Direitos de Autor (DDA), com 348 votos a favor e 274 votos contra, e 36 abstenções. Este processo legislativo tinha sido iniciado em 2016 e desde 2001 que não existiam alterações à...

First developed in 2000 by Richards and Raymond (2000), the concept of creative tourism is now relatively stabilised and broadly used in research on cultural tourism’s emergent modalities (Gonçalves, 2008). According to its initial conceptualisation, creative tourism implies tourists’ active participation in learning experiences that stimulate the...

This Tourism and Management Studies Special Issue on Creative Tourism was born within the scope of a quite original project: CREATOUR – Creative Tourism Destination Development in Small Cities and Rural Areas. This project is the first action-research project in Portugal, whose objectives are to study and stimulate creative tourism initiatives in s...

Museus e Turismo. As determinantes da experiência turísticas nos museus portugueses.

Cultural Heritage (CH) is an essential expression of the wealth and diversity of human cultures, and therefore its documentation, interpretation, restoration, and dissemination are considered to be crucial tasks. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) provide researchers with powerful tools to deal with the digital acquisition, storage,...

Avaliação da experiência turística nos espaços museológicos.

ABSTRACT: Creative tourism is helping to revitalize local economies. By offering "visitors the opportunity to develop their creative potential through active participation in courses and learning experiences which are characteristic of the holiday destination" (Richards and Raymond, 2000), creative tourism promotes the tourist immersion into the lo...

Alexandra rodrigues Gonçalves-ESGHT as comunidades criativas, o turismo e a cultura Os paradigmas do turismo dos anos 80 estão ultrapassados perante a emergência daquilo que se designou por «Turismo Criativo». As novas estratégias de regeneração urbana apontam para uma ligação e cooperação entre as 'indústrias criativas'e o turismo. O novo turista...

Creative tourism is helping to revitalize local economies.

Um passeio comentado pela cidade histórica de Faro com Joaquim Romero de Magalhães.

Resumo A discussão do trinómio museus, turismo e sociedade parte da noção que existem novos paradigmas, aos quais o museu não pode permanecer indiferente. Os trabalhos de investigação mais recentes revelam que o turista da pós-modernidade valoriza e procura nos destinos que visita aspectos como: interactividade, autenticidade, experiências multisse...

The Mobile Five Senses Augmented Reality System for Museums (M5SAR) project aims to development an Augmented Reality mobile system for museums. Museums are amazing places, where it is important to sensorial augment as much as possible the visits, permitting to see, ear, touch, smell, and taste all the interesting objects there exist. Also fundament...

A cultura assume-se cada vez mais como uma forma de lazer, como uma opção de ocupação de tempos livres, à disposição de uma sociedade mais instruída e com mais rendimento disponível. Assiste-se a uma consciência mais generalizada da importância da cultura como factor de desenvolvimento das sociedades. Por outro lado, a visão de que a arte e a cultu...

Cultural attractions are becoming crucial components of tourism destination attractiveness. Nonetheless, the relationship between tourism and heritage sites, and museums has some points of conflict.

This paper presents and reflects on some of the results obtained from a study conducted 0ver a 6 month period. The study focused on the tourists who visited the Faro National Capital of Culture. Between March and December 2005, a total of 154 events and attractions (with a total of 2513 sessions) including art exhibitions theatre, concerts, dance a...

Este ano, o Conselho Internacional dos Museus (ICOM) escolheu o tema dos Museus e Turismo para a comemoração do Dia Internacional dos Museus (18 de Maio). A reflexão acerca da gestão e interpretação do património, combinando a preservação e o desenvolvimento das sociedades, iniciou-se em 2000, num workshop que teve lugar em Trujilo, Peru e La Paz,...

Results of survey to Faro National Capital of Culture 2005.

Este relatório foi elaborado com base num estudo que decorreu entre Julho e Dezembro de 2005. O objectivo geral do projecto que se desenvolveu traduziu-se na tentativa de aprofundar o conhecimento sobre o perfil dos visitantes não residentes no Algarve que participaram nos eventos culturais da Faro, Capital Nacional da Cultura, assim como as suas m...

Este relatório foi elaborado com base num estudo que decorreu entre Julho e Dezembro de 2005. O objectivo geral do projecto que se desenvolveu traduziu-se na tentativa de aprofundar o conhecimento sobre o perfil dos visitantes não residentes no Algarve que participaram nos eventos culturais da Faro, Capital Nacional da Cultura, assim como as suas m...

Resumo – As atracções culturais estão a tornar-se componentes principais dos destinos turísticos. No entanto, a relação entre o turismo e os locais patrimoniais, e neste caso com os museus, possui alguns pontos de conflito. O planeamento e a gestão contemporânea tem que incluir o turista como um visitante importante da atracção cultural, para que o...

Urban tourism is a major economic and social activity where the cultural dimension of cities is one of the main factors that attract visitors. The present work results from a dissertation thesis that aimed to evaluate the existence of cultural tourism in the towns of Faro and Silves and proposed means of fostering such activities in the future. The...

Urban tourism is a major economic and socialactivity and the cultural dimension of cities is oneof the main factors that attract visitors.The present work results from a dissertation thesisthat aimed to evaluate the existence of culturaltourism in the towns of Faro and Silves and proposedmeans of fostering such activities in the future.The “transve...

Este trabalho insere-se nas problemáticas da formação superior em Turismo, debruçando-se em particular sobre novas ofertas de formação.

The cultural component of urban tourism as complementary offer to the ‘sun and beach’ product – The case studies of Faro and Silves Tourism in an urban environment is an economic and social activity of great importance. However, local planning has seldom included it in its domain of action. The cultural component of cities asserts itself as one of...

Case study materials

Resumo As funções tradicionais do património cultural estão a ser reinventadas e hoje os visitantes esperam experimentar o património. Por sua vez, os museus, não raramente promovem actividades turísticas que estão na base de economias locais e regionais. Na actualidade, os turistas representam uma parte importante das visitas aos museus, assumindo...

O património é parte da nossa cultura, daquilo que fomos, que evoluímos e para onde caminhamos. O turismo pretende fazer uso desse património, permitindo que os turistas possam desfrutar do mesmo. Para tal é preciso planear a sua preservação, conservação, reabilitação, apresentação e interpretação, que deverão conside-rar inúmeros factores e ser re...