Filomena Maria Cardoso Pedrosa Ferreira Martins

• Associate Professor at University of Aveiro

Tourism routes are partnerships between stakeholders to develop a common tourist product. Limited research exists on factors influencing their overall success, that is, the critical success factors (CSFs). Thus, this systematic review applies the PRISMA protocol with the aim of identifying and discussing these CSFs by addressing the question: ‘Whic...

Purpose This study aims to identify Critical Success Factors (CSFs) for tourism route development and proposes a tailored conceptual model. It addresses a comprehensive range of tourism routes, considering their respective goals and performance. Design/methodology/approach The authors applied a qualitative approach to investigate five tourism rout...

Few studies have examined the influence of the intensity of visitors’ on-site experience on the formation of in situ destination image or its effects on destination loyalty; however, none appear to have simultaneously examined a mediation (cognitive and affective images) and moderation effect (visitors’ origin; domestic or international) on these r...

Understanding visitors’ actual behaviour is key for tourist destinations to define strategies for different subgroups of experience-based visitors. The few studies that have analysed the influence of the intensity of visitors’ on-site experience on the formation of destination image also considered intentions and did not analyse its influence on lo...

As the Whale and dolphin Watching (WW) industry grows, so does the need for better industry management. The present study aims to both evaluate the current compliance of WW operators with local WW statutory tools, as well as gain a multi-perspective overview of WW activities in the Strait of Gibraltar. To this end, a total of 637 questionnaires wer...

Whale and dolphin watching (WW) is the world's largest cetacean-related economic activity. Its growth in the Strait of Gibraltar calls for adequate management for achieving social, economic and ecological sustainability. This study aims to gain a multi-stakeholder perspective of WW activity, and assess the socio-economic profile of WW customers, th...

This scoping review provides an overview of the literature on tourism routes, concerning 1) the categorization of tourism routes, 2) how the research has been conducted, in terms of methodologies and main research themes, and 3) future research paths. The review includes documents from four databases, written in English, published until May 2020 an...

Globally, whale watching (WW) is the greatest economic activity that is based on cetaceans, and in mainland Spain the town of Tarifa (Strait of Gibraltar) is the main WW port. Despite it being such an economically relevant sector, little is being done to monitor and guarantee its sustainability. Dedicated questionnaires were designed and delivered...

Coastal and Maritime Cultural Heritage (CMCH) is an important asset in coastal areas. However, this heritage has been exposed to several environmental and human-created threats. This paper presents three European coastal regions with relevant CMCH and important tourism destinations: Ria de Aveiro (Portugal), the Small Isles (Scotland, UK) and Marsa...

The concept of routes in tourism has a broad understanding that goes from a journey between two or more points to a formal network of stakeholders. This scoping review provides an overview of the literature on tourism routes by analysing their characterisation and conceptualization. The review includes documents from four databases, written in Engl...

This book contributes to a better understanding of tourism planning and development in the Western European region, highlighting the key role public planning and policymaking play at the national, regional and local levels. This edited volume includes an introduction, six chapters dealing with tourism development in one particular country (or in th...

Over the last decade, the growth of new businesses is revitalizing the abandoned saltpans of Aveiro by transforming former salt production sites into touristic sites, where artisanal salt production, birdwatching, aquaculture, or other activities take place. The main goal of the study is to analyse the innovation process conducted by private initia...

Purpose-The main goal of the present investigation is to estimate the level of tourists' environmental consciousness (EC), which forms their intention to behave environmentally friendly (EF) during vacation time. Design-Variables of environmental awareness, environmental perception, environmental attitude, and perceived behavioural control were emp...

Spain is one of the four world leaders in coastal tourism. To keep the top position in such a highly competitive market, coastal managers in Spain need to constantly monitor the social, ecological, and economic components of ‘sun and sea’ tourism. Thus, the main goals of the present study are to analyse the most visited Spanish coastal destinations...

Aveiro lagoon is a wetland that represents a valuable ecosystem; it has a status of Special Protection Area and Site of Community Importance, under the Nature 2000 network. Inside Aveiro lagoon there is a salt production site known as Salgado de Aveiro, which represents an important cultural value for the region. However, the decline of artisanal s...

Over the past centuries, cities have undergone major transformations that led to global urbanization. One of the phenomena emerging from urbanization is urban sprawl, defined as the uncontrolled spread of cities into undeveloped areas. The decrease in housing prices and commuting costs as well as the failure to internalize the real costs associated...

La zona costera del Estado de Campeche en México brinda un espacio donde convergen, en una interacción compleja, numerosas actividades económicas de las que depende el estado. A pesar de su importancia ambiental, social y económica en el desarrollo de este territorio, su gestión se ha realizado de manera sectorial y no integrada. En 2007 se creó un...

Educational outreach can be achieved through responsible Whale Watching (WW). Here, we investigate the factors affecting customers’ satisfaction on WW experience in the Strait of Gibraltar Important Marine Mammal Area. Between July and September 2017 and 2018, guides of the WW company TURMARES Tarifa submitted 398 questionnaires to customers random...

Coastal food services are an important segment within ‘sea and sun’ tourism. They have a direct impact on the environment from liquid and solid waste generation, air contamination, and excessive energy and water consumption. Mass tourism and the contemporary threat of climate change enhance the anthropogenic intrusion, especially in vulnerable coas...

Addressing challenges of secure and sustainable minerals production in the EU requires a policy framework that boosts entrepreneurship and innovation across the mining value chain. This deliverable brings together the final results of the MIN-GUIDE project on innovation-driving factors along the whole mining value chain (i.e. permitting, exploratio...

This book offers a compilation of transdisciplinary contributions that demonstrate the features of the relationship between tourism, health, wellbeing and protected areas. Attention is given to case studies stemming from current and future trends around these topics. Many of these case studies take place in European settings. The book has been divi...

Touristic whale watching (WW) is the most profitable activity based on cetaceans worldwide. In Spain, WW is concentrated in the south where Tarifa (Strait of Gibraltar) is the main departure port with four operators. Using the vessels of the WW operator “TURMARES Tarifa”, 274 semi-structured questionnaires were randomly distributed to and compiled...

The coastal zone of the State of Campeche provides a space where converge, in a complex interaction, numerous economic activities on which the state depends. Despite its environmental, social and economic importance in the State development, its management had been made in a sectorial and unintegrated way. In 2007, a Mexican Inter-ministerial Commi...

Deliverable D3.1 of the EU Hoizon 2020 project MIN-GUIDE: Innovative Exploration and Extraction: Policy and legislation framework for innovative exploration and extraction MIN-GUIDE: Minerals Policy Guidance for Europe; https://www.researchgate.net/project/MIN-GUIDE-Minerals-Policy-Guidance-for-Europe

Geographical Information Systems are tools that allow a better decision making process, accessing politicians and managers in tourism development and providing integrated touristic information. Furthermore, these are powerful tools for the development of destination marketing strategies. Aveiro web-based Geographical Information System was develope...

Adaptation to climate change is a process that should engage different participants, including not only researchers and technicians but also other stakeholders and local individuals and, therefore, it is important to understand their beliefs on the local effects of climate change. Recent studies illustrate a linear relation between coastal distance...

Deliverable D3.3 of the EU Horizon 2020 project MIN-GUIDE. Innovative Exploration and Extraction: Innovative legislation and policies in sub-surface and deep sea mining

The Algeciras Bay hosts several species of cetaceans and it therefore represents a conservation hotspot, along with being a particularly important geopolitical and economic area. Here we analysed Mysticete occurrence data with the aim to inform management and conservation in the Bay area. Using different platforms of opportunity belonging to whale...

Deliverable 3.2 of the EU Horizon 2020 project MIN-GUIDE: Innovative Exploration and Extraction: Innovation evaluation criteria and best case practices in exploration and extraction MIN-GUIDE: Minerals Policy Guidance for Europe; https://www.researchgate.net/project/MIN-GUIDE-Minerals-Policy-Guidance-for-Europe

Urban green/blue spaces are put under pressure as urban areas grow, develop and evolve. It is increasingly recognized, however, that green/blue spaces provide important ecosystem services, stimulate higher real estate prices and prevent flooding problems. This paper aims to assess and compare the socio-economic impacts of potential green/blue space...

Geographical information systems (GIS) have been defined by different authors, some before the 1970s, when GIS started to expand. A common definition is “a powerful set of tools for storing and retrieving at will, transforming and displaying spatial data from the real world for a particular set of purposes” (Burrough 1986:6). In this way, GIS can b...

RESUMO As zonas costeiras e marinhas são recursos importantes em todo o mundo, abrigando ecossistemas sensíveis, com uma enorme biodiversidade e com diversos interesses conflituantes, entre eles o turismo. Neste cenário, o presente trabalho analisa a atuação das Organizações Não-Governamentais de Ambiente (ONGA) relacionada com a gestão do turismo...

The Brazilian oil sector faces significant challenges. The quality of governance and institutions must be significantly improved and corruption must be better controlled in order for Brazil to benefit both economically and socially from its oil revenues, because both national and international experience have shown that the ownership of wealth in o...

“Ria de Aveiro” is a branded tourism region site, in the Central region of Portugal, which comprises a variety of natural and cultural tourist products and resources, which needs to be integrated in a way to enhance the promotion and management of this destination. In this way, Ria de Aveiro web-based Geographical Information System (GIS) was devel...

Coastal risk is already high in several parts of the world and is expected to be amplified by climate change, which makes it necessary to outline effective risk management strategies. Risk managers assume that increasing awareness of coastal risk is the key to public support and endorsement of risk management strategies - an assumption that underli...

Geographical Information Systems are tools that allow a better decision making process, accessing politicians and managers in tourism development and providing integrated touristic information. Furthermore, these are powerful tools for the development of destination marketing strategies. Having this in mind, ‘Ria de Aveiro’ web-based Geographical I...

Nowadays no other region on earth is more threatened by natural hazards than coastal areas. However the increasing risk in this area is not just a climate extreme events' result. Coasts are the places with highest concentration of people and values, thus impacts continue to increase as the values of coastal infrastructures continue to grow. Climate...

Protected areas are created with the aim of promoting environmental protection and preserving biodiversity, thus responding to the growing need to maintain the sustainability of the planet. In Brazil, the increase in the number of protected areas is evident, namely in the case of Parks, where tourism is one of several activities compatible with the...

Palavras-Chave | Turismo, ONGA, Sustentabilidade, Ilhas, Açores. Objetivos | Este trabalho analisa a atuação das Organizações Não Governamentais de Ambiente (ONGA) relacionadas ao turismo na Ilha Terceira, no arquipélago dos Açores, Portugal. O objetivo é identificar se estas organizações atuam, de alguma forma, com o turismo e se contribuem para a...

Climate change is one of the greatest threats to coastal zones. Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) considers the interaction between socioeconomic activities and environmental requirements to natural resources use in those coastal zones. It must now include measures to climate change adaptation, particularly directed to the most vulnerable a...

Cada vez mais as ONGs ambientalistas estão desenvolvendo ações ligadas ao turismo. Essas ações têm possibilitado um aprendizado para as ONGs, para a comunidade local e pesquisadores. Contudo, verifica-se pouca profissionalização no que refere-se ao planejamento, implementação e monitoramento destas ações. Em se tratando de territórios insulares, es...

Coastal zones are preferential tourism areas. In this way, the exponential increase of second home tourism in the last years should be highlighted. The excessive occupation of coastal areas, associated with private economic interests, has brought negative consequences on the land use management, with the massive building construction and buildings...

Cada vez mais o turismo vem-se configurando como fenômeno global fomentando impactos positivos e negativos a nível social, ambiental e econômico. Devido ao seu grande impacto nas sociedades contemporâneas, estudos e pesquisas vêm sendo desenvolvidos no intuito de conhecer e gerir melhor essa atividade de forma sustentável, destacando-se assim a nec...

Resumo: Nas últimas décadas, os territórios rurais portugueses foram alvo de progressivo declínio demográfico, fraco desenvolvimento económico e perda de competitividade em relação aos grandes centros urbanos mais desenvolvidos. Neste contexto, considera-se que o turismo possa constituir uma mais-valia para travar a tendência regressiva que se veri...

As alterações ocorridas nos estuários têm vindo a afetar as populações de aves, sobretudo através da perda de habitat. As salinas, existentes nessas zonas, são importantes para várias espécies de aves aquáticas, nomeadamente as limícolas, que as utilizam para se alimentarem, reproduzirem e repousarem. Neste estudo, selecionaram-se diferentes tipos...

Resumo Diversas regiões rurais estão a tornar-se importantes destinos turísticos, não só pela qualidade do ambiente mas, também, pelos serviços prestados pelos promotores turísticos oferecendo uma variedade de produtos que competem, grandemente, com regiões turísticas mais tradicionais e estabilizadas. A região de Trás-os-Montes é exemplo de um des...

Tourism has become the world's largest industry, and has overcome economic sectors such as oil production and car manufacturing. It is foreseen that tourism will continue to expand in the future and will spread all around the world. In Europe, the tourism sector is made of 440 million international arrivals that are responsible for accounting about...

Coastal dynamics changes, caused by natural or man-made factors, can to give rise serious consequences, namely at urban areas, exposing coastal population at risk. In this context, the understanding of the way people perceive the coastal dynamics and their exposure to risk is essential for the land use management and Integrated Coastal Zone Managem...

Protected Natural areas have specific functions, namely the preservation of natural and modified ecosystems, fundamental in maintaining life sustaining systems. The preservation of both the emotional values of nature and a wide range of resources for scientific research is also important. The establishment of a national network of natural protected...

A procura excessiva pelas áreas costeiras trouxe consequências desastrosas ao nível do ordenamento do território, com a construção desregrada do edificado, surgindo mesmo inúmeras situações de residências secundárias em áreas de risco costeiro. Apresenta-se o caso do Furadouro, onde se verifica um acentuado recuo da linha de costa e uma excessiva u...

The coexistence of human activities and pressures on the dynamics of coastal areas are a challenge for the land use management, understood as the interaction of Human/Environment management. The multidisciplinary and diversity of agents that request land in the coastal areas, lead to the necessity of a management based on integrated studies. In thi...

Nunca como hoje, em Portugal, a questão da participação das populações na tomada de decisões e na implementação de medidas e políticas de natureza variada, foi tão debatida, tão desejada e exaltada. As várias manifestações públicas ocorridas nos últimos anos, em grande parte fora dos canais institucionais, vêm de certa forma colocar em causa o mode...

Ria de Aveiro is a coastal lagoon located at the Central Region of Portugal subjected to the influence of the tides, resulting in a set of characteristic biotopes favouring anthropic and natural processes. Once managed and controlled correctly, each of these biotopes will allow simultaneously the biodiversity and integration in the making of the we...

Nowadays in Portugal, the question of public participation in the processes of decision making, implementation of plans and policies has become a very important issue of debate. However, the different public demonstrations, occurred in the last few years (mostly outside the institutional channels) proved that the actual participation model is no lo...

A partir do entendimento de que os problemas ambientais são cada vez mais problemas sociais, pretendemos observar, através da opinião pública portuguesa, a emergência do ambiente como temática de referência social, bem como os factores que motivam e condicionam a formação e a consolidação de uma cidadania ambiental. Tal como têm demonstrado divers...

Summary This article allows for a familiarisation with the pilot-project - Recuperation and Appreciation of the Quays, developed at the University of Aveiro (Portugal) under the ESGIRA - MARIA project (Integrated Management Structure for the Ria de Aveiro). This is a research project co-financed by the DGENV within the framework of the Life-Environ...

A importância do sal na economia da região O sal foi outrora um produto de grande importância no desenvolvimento económico da região da Ria de Aveiro por ser uma matéria vital em diversos ciclos produtivos (sendo a proliferação da salga do bacalhau e das indústrias químicas disso prova). Nas últimas décadas tem-se assistido ao abandono da actividad...

RESUMO A maioria das regiões insulares é considerada como uma entidade costeira, sendo as suas áreas costeiras de grande relevância para o desenvolvimento e um valioso recurso ambiental. Todavia, a excessiva solicitação dessas áreas pelos recursos e pelo espaço, provoca conflitos de interesses entre diferentes usuários. As ilhas, na generalidade, s...