Dolors Vidal-Casellas

Dolors Vidal-Casellas
  • PhD in Cultural Tourism
  • Chair at University of Girona

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Introduction
Teacher and expert researcher in Cultural and Religious Tourism issues at the University of Girona. Directora of the Gastronomy, Culture and Tourism Chair-Calonge San Antonio of the University of Girona. Member of the Unesco Network Unitwin Culture, Tourisme et Developement coordinated by the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Director of the Research Group Multidisciplinary Laboratory in Tourism Research (LMRT) together with Lluís Mundet.
Current institution
University of Girona
Current position
  • Chair

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Publications (107)
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Food tourism impacts the local development of communities from economic, cultural, and environmental perspectives. Also, it serves as a means for preserving and promoting traditions and fostering a sense of belonging within these communities. Despite the extensive body of research on food tourism, there is a limited focus on the perspective of wome...
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RESUMEN El turismo biocultural representa una propuesta innovadora y consciente que integra el respeto y la preservación de la naturaleza con el valor de las culturas locales. A través de prácticas ecológicas, comunitarias, culturales y regenerativas, este tipo de turismo ofrece experiencias significativas a aquellos que buscan una conexión profund...
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La estrategia #UdGlobal de la Universitat de Girona (UdG) tiene como objetivo incrementar la presencia mundial en todos los ámbitos de la universidad, incluyendo la internacionalización curricular. Desde el año 2020 la UdG tiene una red de innovación docente específica para COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) e intercambio virtual qu...
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La gestión de los museos, desde inicios del siglo XXI, ha mostrado una creciente implementación de las nuevas tecnologías (códigos QR, Apps, realidad aumentada, realidad virtual, gamificación, entre otros), en aras de proporcionar una mayor satisfacción a sus visitantes. De hecho, la pandemia de la COVID-19 ha acelerado dicho uso, que ya venía gest...
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Examines how temporality manifests in and impacts tourism in different parts of the world looking at climate, culture and/or structural conditions of the tourism operation. It looks at the reasons and causes for temporality within tourism and how this effects both the industry, the consumer and the environment.
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The Calonge and Sant Antoni Chair of Gastronomy, Culture and Tourism is an organizational unit, which is located within the organization of the University of Girona, having relative autonomy from the operational levels. This research work seeks to identify, through the historical itinerary of the Chair, the contributions, discussions, and professio...
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The Calonge and Sant Antoni Chair of Gastronomy, Culture and Tourism is an organizational unit, which is located within the organization of the University of Girona, having relative autonomy from the operational levels. This research work seeks to identify, through the historical itinerary of the Chair, the contributions, discussions, and professio...
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The CultSense Pedagogical Toolkit provides a wide selection of materials for teachers to work Cultural Sensitivity, in particular in mobility contexts. Although aimed primarily at the fields of Tourism, Leisure and Culture, the tools can be adapted to a range of topics. Among others, the tools include: self-reflection for teachers; instruments tha...
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This article reflects on the growing trend of cultural landscape appreciation and connecting landscapes with their broader heritage surroundings. It focuses on historical trails and their adjacent cultural and natural heritage as a holistic cultural landscape with a particular case from the Costa Brava. The paper links the concepts of natural scene...
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L a Càtedra de Gastronomia, Cultura i Turisme Calonge i Sant Antoni de la Universitat de Girona treballa sobre tres eixos fonamentals: La Gastronomia com a expressió profunda de la cultura i del patrimoni; la Cultura, entesa com a expressió màxima que ens permet transitar entre el que és local i l’universal; i el Turisme, activitat viatgera que des...
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Food and drink play a key role in religion and often lie at the core of doctrines and dogmas, rituals and practices. Wine is not an exception. The relationship between wine and religion goes back in history. Wine culture was spread by Greeks and Romans trough all the Mediterranean countries. In Catholicisme, wine was (and still, is) used for liturg...
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This research aims to better understand the circumstances of museums in times of Covid-19 and investigate the reopening of museums as physical spaces for visitors’ experience. The influence of visitors’ socio-demographic and tripographic characteristics on visitor behavior, safety measures implemented by museums, and visitation experience were exam...
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Community-based tourism is widely advocated by academics and professionals as a potential contributor to the conservation and development of a tourism destination. However, other practitioners have questioned whether sustainability goals can be achieved through this form of tourism. Of the various factors reported in the literature that hinder the...
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Community-based tourism is widely advocated by academics and professionals as a potential contributor to the conservation and development of a tourism destination. However, other practitioners have questioned whether sustainability goals can be achieved through this form of tourism. Of the various factors reported in the literature that hinder the...
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The aim of this module is to describe the nature of immaterial heritage. Most usually, we think about intangible heritage as celebrations, know-how, worldviews and other such manifestations as defined in the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (UNESCO, 2003). There is another type of immaterial heritage that we, as v...
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Si bien el turismo puede considerarse una actividad fundamentalmente humanística, esta vertiente apenas ha cristalizado en el turismo como disciplina académica, por lo menos hasta los últimos años. El presente texto describe como se han ido construyendo los estudios universitarios de turismo en el Estado español. Esto es relevante ya que los que pa...
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The article presents a study on the profile of the visiting public to the 23a Firatast Una fira boníssima and perceptions regarding its organization, and the gastronomic and cultural elements presented during the event. The methodology employed is both qualitative and quantitative, using direct observation, survey questionnaire scripts with 119 par...
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This book endeavours to put forward a toolkit that will aid positive outcomes in religious tourism management, drawing on case studies from multiple countries and regions. This book is divided into three main sections. The first deals with the theoretical aspects of managing sacred sites; the second with best practice in the management of sacred si...
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This book provides an overview of religious tourism as a tool for intercultural dialogue and the interpretation of religious heritage for tourism. Part 1 (chapters 2-7) discusses conceptual approaches, including the notion of the sacred. Part 2 (chapters 8-11) deals with strategies and tools for management and interpretation. Part 3 (chapters 12-17...
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This book provides an overview of religious tourism as a tool for intercultural dialogue and the interpretation of religious heritage for tourism. Part 1 (chapters 2-7) discusses conceptual approaches, including the notion of the sacred. Part 2 (chapters 8-11) deals with strategies and tools for management and interpretation. Part 3 (chapters 12-17...
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There exists an ambiguous relationship today between World Heritage Sites and tourism. If, on the one hand, the World Heritage Site recognition represents a significant cultural asset, the fact that such an award often brings an overabundance of tourists is worrisome to say the least. A series of differentiating aspects are identified that will fac...
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Religious heritage can act as a transmitter of the age-old values linked to the identity of a territory, while reflecting on the relationship between the religious value and the monumental value of a place. This reflection is based on the initial premise that at present there are elements related to the architectural heritage of the church that hav...
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Estetrabajo expone el estado actualde la oferta de festivales celebrados en la Comunidad Autónoma de Cataluña, en España. El estudio abarca las cuatro provincias de la región: Barcelona, Gerona, Lérida y Tarragona. El registro recoge información acerca del género artístico, calendario estipulado y ubicación para cada evento. Es relevante como mapa...
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This MOOC “Tourism Management at UNESCO World Heritage Sites”, produced by the UNESCO-UNITWIN Network “Culture, Tourism, and Development”, provides an introduction to tourism at UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Moving from UNESCO’s principles and doctrines, the MOOC covers Communication Technologies, Economy, Management and Planning, and more... It is...
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About the Conference SITCON 2017 It is our great pleasure to present the proceedings of the third international scientific conference in the field of tourism and hospitality - SITCON 2017 (Singidunum International Tourism Conference), held on June 8, 2017 at Singidunum University in Belgrade. The principal aims of the conference were to provide a...
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Este artigo analisa o papel dos monastérios como espaço sagrado e como sua relação com o turismo configura uma paisagem de “bom gosto”. Os monastérios são um exemplo de convergência entre patrimônio tangível e patrimônio intangível. São espaços construídos com alta carga simbólica e que têm atuado, em muito casos, como guardiões da tradição. Ao mes...
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This book aims to demonstrate to the reader the intrinsic details that have a crucial role to play within the religious tourism and pilgrimage management process. This 2nd edition lays a foundation for scholars, practitioners and students who do not study management, but who are concerned with the appearance and development of religious tourism and...
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This text provides an innovative multi-disciplinary social science approach to the pedagogy of contemporary tourism planning processes. The three chapters in Part I review different conceptual aspects of planning, tourism and sustainability, explored from different interdisciplinary perspectives. These perspectives preface and underpin four practit...
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Document o Referència Bibliogràfica (http://cataleg.udg.edu/record=b1002859~S10*cat)
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This book deals with the phenomena of cultural tourism within different global contexts, offering insight into contemporary research and case studies that in their cross-cutting themes consider different approaches to the management of cultural tourism within diverse cultural contexts. In providing cultural insights from various perspectives, the v...
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This book deals with the phenomena of cultural tourism within different global contexts, offering insight into contemporary research and case studies that in their cross-cutting themes consider different approaches to the management of cultural tourism within diverse cultural contexts. In providing cultural insights from various perspectives, the v...
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El estudio de la imagen turística, aun siendo un campo relativamente nuevo dentro de la turismología, se ha dotado de un gran impulso en los últimos años. Ya a finales de la década de 1970 Miossec defendía que una destinación turística no es sino una imagen, una representación mental. Debe asumirse que no se trata de imágenes inocentes y que están...
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La Costa Brava, situada en el noreste de la Península Ibérica, al sur de la frontera francesa, es uno de los territorios turísticos más destacados a nivel mundial. Actualmente está asociada a una fuerte imagen de turismo de sol y playa (desarrollada a partir de los años 1960), si bien cada vez más se la complementa con valores naturales y culturale...
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Seu d’Art de Girona. Butlletí (http://cataleg.udg.edu/record=b1003160) ISSN: 2013-2735
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Turismo e Arqueologia: Múltiplos Olhares (http://cataleg.udg.edu/record=b1286538)
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We report the case of a previously healthy 19-month-old boy whose family lived in the countryside and had a dog. He presented with a two-week history of fever and massive splenomegaly. The characteristic pancytopenia and hypergammaglobulinemia were also detected. Bone marrow biopsy was negative, but serology was positive for Leishmania infantum. We...
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Imatge i destí (http://cataleg.udg.edu/record=b1183277)
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Imatge i destí (http://cataleg.udg.edu/record=b1183277)
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Imatge i destí (http://cataleg.udg.edu/record=b1183277)
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Desde Estambul a Barcelona, de Almería a Niza, de Venecia a Túnez, de Atenas a Alejandría, de la India a la China, el mundo ofrece una actividad cultural rica y muy variada. Los turistas que lo recorren desean impregnarse de ella. Parece como si el sector turístico no haya sido capaz de organizarse y desarrollar un proyecto común de turismo cultura...
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Ajuntament de Girona, Universitat de Girona
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Document o Referència Bibliogràfica (http://cataleg.udg.edu/record=b1002859~S10*cat) ISSN: 1138-5383
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