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Does gender affect visiting a world heritage site?
Remoaldo, Paula; Vareiro, Laurentina; Cadima Ribeiro, José; Freitas Santos, JoséThe city of Guimarães in Portugal is a place of strong symbolic and cultural significance, and the nomination of its historical center as a World Heritage Site in 2001 enhanced its tourism potential. This study presents the results of a survey conducted in 2010 and 2011 to capture the profile and motivations of tourists visiting Guimarães as a cultural tourism destination. The study addressed two main issues: w...
Perceptions of residents of hosting the “Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Cul...
Remoaldo, Paula; Cadima Ribeiro, José; Mota, Mécia; Vareiro, LaurentinaThe European Capital of Culture is an annual mega-event, which can provide a good forum though which to challenge and engage local citizens, thus generating feelings of common citizenship. In addition, it presents an ideal opportunity to promote the restructuring of the hosting urban space. However, the success of both the organization and the city that hosts the cultural event depends on the residents’ commitm...
Residents’ perceptions of tourism impacts in Guimarães (Portugal): a cluster an...
Vareiro, Laurentina; Remoaldo, Paula; Cadima Ribeiro, JoséIn this investigation, a cluster analysis was used to separate Guimara˜es (Portugal) residents into clusters according to their perceptions of the impacts of tourism development. This approach is uncommonly applied to Portugal data and is even rarer for world heritage sites. The world heritage designation is believed to make an area more attractive to tourists. The clustering procedure analysed 400 data observa...
Evaluating the Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Culture (ECOC): a Tourist Per...
Freitas Santos, José; Vareiro, Laurentina; Remoaldo, Paula; Cadima Ribeiro, JoséGuimarães has hosted, during the year of 2012, one of the European Capital of Culture (ECOC). The evaluation of the event is needed as public, private and community funds are involved. The approach considers the tourists (domestic and international) as external and independent stakeholders who assessed the cultural activities developed during the event and the attributes of the city. The results of the survey s...
Potenciais impactos para Guimarães do acolhimento da Capital Europeia da Cultur...
Freitas Santos, José; Remoaldo, Paula; Cadima Ribeiro, José; Vareiro, LaurentinaA nomeação de Guimarães como Capital Europeia da Cultura (CEC), em 2012, suscitou grandes expectativas na comunidade local, nos territórios limítrofes e, de um modo geral, na população portuguesa. No entanto, muitos dos potenciais impactos são ainda pouco perceptíveis pela maior parte das pessoas, se bem que muitas delas antecipem que os impactos sejam positivos. A presente comunicação pretende aferir, de forma...
Motivations to visit and image destination of Guimarães: differences between Po...
Freitas Santos, José; Cadima Ribeiro, José; Vareiro, Laurentina; Remoaldo, PaulaGuimarães hosted the European Capital of Culture (ECOC) during the year of 2012. This study investigates the differences between Portuguese and foreign tourists regarding the main motivations to visit Guimarães and the retained perceived image of the destination. To achieve that purpose a survey was administered to 390 tourists that visited the city during the cultural event. The results show that tourists who ...
Cultural tourism in Northwest Portugal – the case of the world heritage site of...
Remoaldo, Paula; Vareiro, Laurentina; Cadima Ribeiro, José; Alves, ÉlvioA cidade de Guimarães, no noroeste português, é um espaço imbuído de um forte significado simbólico e cultural. A acreditação pela U.N.E.S.C.O. do seu centro histórico como Património Cultural da Humanidade, em Dezembro de 2001, contribuiu significativamente para aumentar o seu potencial em termos turísticos. Na realidade, desde aquela data, tem-se assistido a um aumento sustentado do número de visitantes. O pr...
The tourist potential of the Minho-Lima region (Portugal)
Cadima Ribeiro, José; Vareiro, LaurentinaVisions for Global Tourism Industry: Creating and Sustaining Competitive Strategies
Planning Considerations for Tourism in the Minho-Lima Region (Northwest Portugal)
Remoaldo, Paula; Cadima Ribeiro, José; Vareiro, Laurentina; Mota, MéciaIn administering their territories, most local municipalities aim to preserve their natural, historical and ethnographical resources while simultaneously using them to increase revenue and employment. In order to efficiently promote the products and services available and attract tourists, decision makers, private and public, need to know and incorporate tourists’ preferences in their marketing strategies. In ...
The host-tourist interaction in a world heritage site: the case of Guimarães
Cadima Ribeiro, José; Vareiro, Laurentina; Remoaldo, PaulaGuimarães, in the northwest of Portugal, is a city of strong symbolic and cultural significance and its nomination by UNESCO as world heritage, in 2001, enlarged its tourism potential. In this paper we present a few results of a survey that envisaged capturing the Guimarães residents’ perceptions of tourism impacts and their attitudes towards tourists. Specifically, one analyzes the type of relationship that ex...
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