Cristiana Oliveira

Universidad Europea de Canarias

Abstract Beer is popular worldwide and it is considered the oldest and most consumed alcoholic beverage in the world. At the global production level, most of the market is dominated by a few multinational companies, but in recent years, craft beers have gained market share. In addition to being independent and produced on a smaller scale, the main...

Abstract: The aim of this investigation is to help select design criteria that highlight customer satis-faction in order to improve design quality in buildings, specifically in a building of a thermal hotel. The methodology is based on applying the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) technique to listen to the voice of the customer, together with the...

The aim of this research is to contrast an explanatory model of how the perceived organizational image of a university centre (faculty) influences its students´ loyalty. The data is obtained from a structured survey of students in Spain, obtaining a sample of 224 valid questionnaires. The methodology used is exploratory and confirmatory factor anal...

Abstract Deforestation shows the constant environmental degradation that occurs worldwide as a result of the growth of economic activity and the increase in population. This research examines the causal link between renewable energy consumption, GDP, GDP2, non-renewable energy price, population growth and forest area in high, middle- and low-income...

Abstract This study aims to present a new diagnosis model of Sun and beach destinations, we analyzed a set of explanatory theories about the tourism system, because current models do not reflect the real dynamics of an emerging tourist destination. We create a new predictive model so it served us to be used as a diagnostic method for the tourism sy...

Abstract: From an empirical point of view, the liberalization of the internal energy market reduces carbon dioxide emissions, promoting a wider range of renewable energy sources. The aim of this paper is to examine the effect of the liberalization of the internal energy market on CO2 emissions, which was implemented in the European Union in 2011....

Abstract: Poverty is one of the main indicators of economic development worldwide, in such a way that one of the Sustainable Development Goals is to eradicate poverty in all its forms worldwide. The objective of this research was to examine the effect of the gross value added (GVA) of tourism on poverty in the 198 contiguous Ecuadorian cantons. The...

Resumen El objetivo de este trabajo de investigación es realizar un análisis profundo del destino turístico “Villa de la Orotava” como parte del proceso de elaboración del plan estratégico diseñado para la Villa de La Orotava entre los años 2018 y 2019. Se sigue un enfoque participativo, entendiendo la percepción social como un elemento más del mar...

The coastal band of the coastal tourist territories (TTL) in the islands of the archipelago has an orographic characteristic that has had to be overcome by those population centers born in the lower limit of that band, against the coastline itself. These population centers are born as nodes of establishment and continental expansion, in foothills o...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the critical factors of quality and customer results in the rural accommodation sector. An extensive review of the academic literature allows us to propose a theoretical model that explains this relationship, together with the hypotheses to be validated by the technique of structural...

The present article, the result of a qualitative research of conceptual nature and of an exploratory analysis of contents, seeks to make a critical approach between concepts related to the anthropology of insular tourism and the main elements of marketing and documentation in general that is developed around the small Portuguese continental islands...

Abstract: This paper reviews the academic literature related to religious tourism through a bibliometric study and citations of articles indexed in the multidisciplinary database Web of Science (WoS). Through an advanced search by terms, a representative set of 103 documents that form the ad-hoc basis of the analysis were selected. In view of the r...

Abstract Tourism is an economic activity capable of promoting the development of regions, creating wealth and contributing to the preservation of heritage. Thus, the tourism sector in general, and in particular, the new typologies of tourism that take advantage of cultural resources, such as religious tourism, have in recent years become the focus...

Abstract: The objective of this research is to identify and analyze good environmental practices followed by the Thermal sector in Spain. It is also to analyze if the motivations that lead thermal establishments to implement environmental practices influence their level of implementation. The methodology used is the performance of a descriptive and...

At present, in the sports services industry, “perceived quality of service” becomes an important concept for its managers, allowing, on the one hand, to hear and design services taking into account its users’ requirements, a key point to ensure its survival, and, on the other hand, to detect weaknesses and establish the necessary improvement action...

Tourism is all about places and people. Tourism and places are a relation to be explained under the tenets of sociology and psychology. This void the present research, that aims to assess place attachment as an emotional state. As the discussion is positing only on domestic tourists, the cultural attachment is engrained. Hence the only dimension th...

How does an archaeological museum understand its function in a digital environment? Consumer expectations are rapidly shifting, from what used to be a passive relationship with exhibition contents, towards a different one, in which interaction, individuality and proactivity define the visitor experience. This consumer paradigm is much studied in fa...

Tourism studies have become distinct in the past years due to the emergence of specialized journals, but also of universities, departments and research centers offering PhD programs, fundamental for the development of research and for the foundation of new scholars across the world. The purpose of this paper is to assess the recent development of k...

Tourism studies have become distinct in the past years due to the emergence of specialized journals, but also of universities, departments and research centers offering PhD programs, fundamental for the development of research and for the foundation of new scholars across the world. The purpose of this paper is to assess the recent development of k...

Travel agencies are currently faced with increasing difficulties in adapting products and services to a diverse and unpredictable demand. As part of a multi-year research on this phenomenon, a survey was carried out in order to analyse consumer behaviour, in its relationship with distributors. The measurement instruments were applied by means of a...

Introduction Portugal’s National Strategic Plan for Tourism (PENT) reflects a major concern towards an activity representing around 9% of the GDP and 8% of the employment. This Strategic Plan has been recently reviewed and one of the key issues consists in a refocus on the private sector, in the matter of anticipating competencies and deploying res...

This paper wants to analyze the relationship between the phenomenon of the equestrian sport and its tourist impacts on a cultural and anthropological context. Considering an equestrian sport approach we will try to define its different definitions and descriptions. If we look at the equestrian sport from a tourist perspective we can rapidly underst...