Marta Dionísio

• Professor
• Professor at Polytechnic Institute of Tomar

Este artigo pretende apresentar a relação existente entre o património industrial de Tomar e o seu património cultural imaterial, mais concretamente a Festa dos Tabuleiros, através da sua participação e organização da Festa. Esta relação, que alarga a todo o concelho de Tomar, principiou, nos dias de hoje, a vontade e a necessidade de preservar amb...

Historical and military tourism has become an emerging sector, with new debates and research paths coming to the forefront in recent years. This paper explores the product implementation process of the Military Tourism Route (RTM), as part of the development of a broader product implementation monitoring system. Particularly, it focuses on the tech...

Since the beginning of the 21st century, tourism has gained the status of one of the largest economic activities in the world being also an important factor for the sustainable development. However, due to the current pandemic phase, this situation has suffered a setback, changing the behaviour and habits ofthe population in general. More than ever...

Resumo: Este estudo visa superar a falha epistemológica no que respeita ao impacto da COVID 19 no alojamento local, como oferta turística e, as estratégias que se têm que adotar para ultrapassar a passagem dum paraíso, para um inferno, na vida de sobrevivência dos proprietários de unidades de alojamento local. O crescimento do Alojamento Local gero...

The INSIGNIA project aims to develop an enhancement model for Portuguese historica military heritage, applied to the Military Tourism Route (RTM) – a tourism product developed by the Portuguese Military Tourism Association (ATMPT), in partnership with Portuguese municipalities and several public and private entities. The RTM is composed of a set of...

The manifestations of the Intangible Cultural Heritage are an integral part of daily life, internalized in the individuals and groups that traditionally preserve them according to their own ways of enhancing and safeguarding. According to the participatory perspective, defended by the UNESCO Convention (2003), the importance given to the temporal a...

All over Europe it became clear that tourism is a cross-cutting economic activity with a wide-ranging impact on the environment and climate and on the EU´s economy as a whole. The tourism industry directly or indirectly employs 27 million people which accounts for 11.2% of total EU employment and helps to promote a positive regional development and...

The present study draws on a typology of hosts in Manor Houses, which work as lodging facilities in the Portuguese countryside, known as Housing Tourism ‘Turismo de Habitação’ (HT). In accordance with the Portuguese legislation currently in force (Decree-Law no. 15/2014 of January 23rd), HT enterprises are family-owned establishments installed in p...

This chapter attempts to explain the main strategies adopted by the hosts of manor houses when they engage in lodging activities. The present research draws on 53 non-structured interviews made to owners/ hosts of housing tourism facilities (HT). The methodological approach used is classic grounded theory (CGT). CGT encompasses a set of strict rese...