Advances in Tourism, Technology and Systems
Selected Papers from ICOTTS 2022, Volume 1
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This research focuses on the proposed tourism offer gamification and storytelling in the Douro region. Currently, the use of games in the tourism sector is beginning to be a strategy applied in several destina...
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The growth of the tourism sector has significant impacts on tourism destinations. Therefore, sustainability is a very current issue and has received special attention in recent years. Considering the problems ...
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In the last decade, the literature on creative tourism has grown tremendously, in effective number of studies and consequently citations, becoming an emerging, relevant, and increasingly complex topic in conte...
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In recent decades, events have become a new typology and alternative tourist attraction for both mature and emerging destinations. The events industry has witnessed significant growth that has highlighted the ...
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Events influence the destinations that host them. It was therefore considered interesting to analyze the influence of the Portuguese Rally sports’ event at Porto. This research aims at evaluating the role of t...
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Residents play a key role in enhancing the tourist experience and in the sustainable development of the destination. From this perspective, residents’ perceptions and actions can significantly affect tourists’ fe...
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The confinement caused by the spread of the disease COVID-19 transformed the way of teaching in the education sector during confinement, leading to the intensification of the development of virtual learning. T...
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The process of tourism destination governance should result from the link between local authorities, communities, and the business sector, aiming at the sustainable development of the region on the economic, e...
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In 2020, the world faced an unimaginable pandemic that has caused devastation and suffering all over the world, affecting the global economy and imposing the suspension of almost all economic activities includ...
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Sustainability in the tourism sector has, in recent years, been raising not only a concern within the discussion of development strategies but also an area of intervention in terms of balance between residents...
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Tourism activities which have the highest environmental, economic, and social benefits are more sustainable. However, when the destination considers that it is still an emerging destination, it does not consid...
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Over the last years, fashion events tourism has been increasing, namely through promotional events, in which designers and fashion companies present their new collections, attracting visitors that meet their n...
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Several authors consider that the current outbreak of COVID-19 presented serious economic consequences worldwide, leading to dramatic changes in companies and consumers behavior, improving changes in communica...
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Smuggling is defined as a set of clandestine exchanges of goods/products, between the population on both sides of the Portuguese and Spanish border, regardless of whether the products were legal or not, and ta...
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The creation of cultural and tourism routes and itineraries are important resources, which allow the enhancement and dynamization of destinations, particularly from an economic perspective, by increasing touri...
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The COVID-19 pandemic turned out to be a huge public health problem with an impact on companies and consumers at the national and international levels. Measures were implemented in Portugal in response to COVI...
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Fashion events have the particularity of adding recognition and value to host cities, which is reflected in a competitive advantage over competing destinations. However, the tourism of fashion events is not pr...
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This article aims to question the importance of food media experiences of a tourist’s destination (TD) branding, associated with luxury gastronomy and celebrity chefs. To this end, a literature review was mad...