Faro National Capital of Culture (FCNC 2005) and Tourism - reflections on the p...

• Autor(es): Ferreira, Ana Maria ; Martins, A. I. ; Gonçalves, A. R. ; Perdigão, F. ; Torkington, Kate ; Pereira, Luis Nobre ; Martins, Paula Ventura
• Data: 2010
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/950
• Origem: Sapientia - Universidade do Algarve
• Assunto(s): tourism
• Tipo de Documento: Documento de conferência
• Idioma: Inglês

Descrição

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 and cinema, took place in Faro and other towns throughout the Algarvian region, Although FCNC 2005 was not specifically project as a tourist related event, the fact that the Algarve is the most important tourist region of Portugal together with the concentration of most of the session over the summer months, which constitute the tourism high season, meant that many of events were well attended by tourist.