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- Analyzing Pilot Projects of Creative Tourism in an Ultra-Peripheral Region : Which guidelines can be extracted for sustainable regional development?Publication . Santos, Carlos; Couto, Gualter; Albergaria, Isabel Soares de; Silva, Leonor Sampaio da; Medeiros, Pilar Damião; Simas, Rosa Neves; Castanho, Rui AlexandreSeveral authors have shown that some tourism typologies - i.e., rural tourism, nature-based tourism, or creative tourism - have a more predominant role in attaining regional sustainability. In this regard, this paper explores the impacts of five pilot projects of creative tourism on the sustainable development of the insular Autonomous Region of the Azores. Through direct exploratory tools, such as interviews and site analyses, the present study enabled us to provide greater insight into creative tourism projects and their relevance to the development of an ultra-peripheral island region. As part of the CREATOUR AZORES Project, this study is based on five creative tourism pilot projects operating in the Azores, Portugal. As such, it is recommended that the regional government, local authorities, and other relevant actors and players in this region actively support and create strategies to strengthen these projects (and similar initiatives) once they not only contribute to regional development and destination promotion but also promote much-desired sustainable development - once these kinds of tourism, in theory, and practice, counteract the dire effects of mass tourism.
- Animal Grazing System EfficiencyPublication . Silva, Emiliana; Santos, Carlos; Mendes, Armando B.This chapter proposes to estimate the technical efficiency in agricultural grazing systemsgrazing systems (dairy, beef and mixed) in Azores, in the year 2002. This research used 184 agricultural farms of FADN – Farm Accountancy Data Network. DEA, a non-parametric methodology, was used to estimate efficiency by means of DEAP software. The results have shown that the average technical efficiency in the dairy grazing system was 63.2% (CRS) and was higher (71.4%) in VRS, and the scale efficiency was about 89.2%. In beef grazing system, the average technical efficiency (CRS) was 69.4%; VRS and the scale efficiency were 82.9 and 84.2%, espectively. In the mixed grazing system, the average technical efficiency (CRS) was 89%, the VRS was higher (99.24%) and the scale efficiency was 89.8%. The mixed system is the most efficient, and about half (46.7%) of the farms were efficient. In the dairy grazing system and in the beef systems, only 9.8 and 11.1% were efficient farms. The efficiency is generally higher in mixed systems than in dairy and beef systems.
- Creative tourism on islands : a review of the literaturePublication . Baixinho, Alexandra; Santos, Carlos; Couto, Gualter; Albergaria, Isabel Soares de; Silva, Leonor Sampaio da; Medeiros, Pilar Damião; Simas, Rosa NevesIn the last two decades, creative tourism has evolved as a burgeoning field, encompassing a wide range of concepts and practices, in di_erent places around the world. From the very beginning, however, creative tourism has aimed to contribute to sustainable development and increased community wellbeing, as an alternative to mass cultural tourism. With this review article, our main objective is to identify and analyze a body of literature that specifically addresses creative tourism in islands, contributing to fill a gap in the knowledge since no reviews with this focus have yet been undertaken. Our aim is to provide a critical overview of creative tourism experiences at island destinations worldwide, addressing the plurality of empirical contexts and methodological approaches found in academic research. This review highlights the key trends in creative tourism, pointing out two distinct approaches: creative tourism in urban contexts, based on creative events, “cultural clusters” or Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs), versus community-focused small-scale tourism experiences in rural contexts. This paper also provides an opportunity to assess the evolution of sustainable creative tourism approaches in islands.
- Escala de motivações dos turistas senioresPublication . Silva, Osvaldo Dias Lopes da; Medeiros, Maria Teresa Pires de; Moniz, Ana; Tomás, Licínio Manuel Vicente; Vieira, Virgilio; Furtado, Sheila; Santos, Carlos; Ferreira, Joaquim A.No incremento do fenómeno turístico, os Açores registaram um crescimento mais intenso desde 2014, tendo alcançado aumentos superiores a 20%, nos dois últimos anos. Este aumento muito significativo do turismo na região requer monitorização e uma estratégia holística assente na economia circular com o desenvolvimento de medidas que possam vir a ter reflexo na promoção da qualidade e na configuração da sustentabilidade socio-ambiental do destino Açores. […]. Com base num conjunto de dezassete itens relativos aos motivos para visitar os Açores foi desenvolvida a Escala de Motivações para os Turistas Seniores (EMTS), a qual revelou boas qualidades psicométricas, designadamente de validade e de fidelidade. Os dados recolhidos por questionário (n=470 turistas que visitaram os Açores) foram analisados com recurso a diversos métodos estatísticos. O conhecimento do perfil do turista sénior, tendo em atenção as suas motivações, ajudará os agentes locais dos setores público e privado a adequarem a sua oferta turística.
- Forecast of hotel overnights in the autonomous region of the AzoresPublication . Santos, Carlos; Couto, Gualter; Pimentel, PedroThis paper concentrates on the application of various time series methods in order to forecast the monthly overnights in Azorean hotels. The aim is to find out the degree to which the forecast of overnights segmented by country of origin, presents smaller errors when compared with the forecast of the total overnights in the Region. The appropriate forecasting method by a tourist’s country of origin, is also analyzed so that potential optimal combinations of separate forecasts can be found in order to forecast the total overnights in Azores.
- Perceção de Saúde, Atividades Preferidas e Satisfação com a Vida em Turistas Seniores no Destino AçoresPublication . Silva, Osvaldo Dias Lopes da; Furtado, Sheila; Tomás, Licínio Manuel Vicente; Moniz, Ana; Vieira, Virgilio; Ferreira, Joaquim A.; Santos, Carlos; Medeiros, Maria Teresa Pires deNa contemporaneidade, assiste-se a uma mudança de paradigma nas dinâmicas, hábitos e estilos de vida das pessoas idosas, que investem em benefício próprio, lazer e viagens. Há autores que falam em “Novos Idosos”. Esta mudança permite-nos refletir sobre o envelhecimento ativo ligado a um turismo sénior que promova a saúde, em geral, e o bem-estar psicológico e a satisfação com a vida, em particular, no caso de turistas que visitaram os Açores nos últimos dois anos (n=697; idades: 55-94 anos). Com este estudo pretende-se compreender as atividades desenvolvidas pelos turistas seniores (entenda-se 55+ anos) que promovem o seu bem-estar; analisar a relação entre a perceção do estado de saúde e as atividades preferidas pelos turistas; cotejar a perceção entre o estado de saúde e variáveis sociodemográficas; e verificar a relação entre Satisfação com a Vida (SV) e: i) variáveis sociodemográficas; ii) perceção do estado de saúde. Aplicou-se um Questionário de Turismo Sénior e a Escala de Satisfação com a Vida (versão portuguesa da Satisfaction With Life Scale de Diener et al., 1985, validada por Simões, 1992). Com recurso a testes não paramétricos, foi possível concluir que as atividades ligadas ao mar e a experiências termais variam em função da faixa etária (os mais velhos procuram o contacto com o mar e os mais novos as experiências termais); estas atividades variam em função da SV (os menos satisfeitos procuram mais o mar, e os mais satisfeitos as termas); as atividades associadas a festas e diversão, assim como a SV, variam em função das habilitações académicas (até ao ensino básico procuram mais as festas populares, embora tenham uma menor SV, relativamente aos restantes turistas seniores da amostra); a perceção do estado de saúde varia em função da SV (os que percebem a saúde como excelente apresentam níveis superiores de SV).
- Quality of the Azores destination in the perspective of touristsPublication . Santos, Carlos; Couto, Gualter; Pimentel, Pedro; Vieira, José CabralTourism is a growing industry in the Autonomous Region of the Azores. However, little is known about how tourists evaluate this destination, something which certainly constitutes a shortcoming if one takes into consideration that this is a very competitive industry, with new destinations appearing every year and others increasing their market share. This paper focuses on the quality of the Azores destination in the perspective of tourists and, to an extent, has the goal of contributing to reduce this shortcoming. According to our findings, 74% of the tourists interviewed consider the global quality of the Azores destination to be very good or excellent, with the landscape, the climate/weather, the hospitality, the cleanliness and the security being the most highly-rated partial indicators. Additionally, a regression analysis indicates that the evaluation of the global quality of this destination varies according to the individual characteristics of tourists.
- Sustainable creative tourism on islands and the pandemic: The Creatour Azores projectPublication . Baixinho, Alexandra; Santos, Carlos; Couto, Gualter; Albergaria, Isabel Soares de; Silva, Leonor Sampaio da; Medeiros, Pilar Damião; Simas, Rosa NevesAs the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was felt worldwide, the tourism sector was forced to seek ways of reinventing itself. Two decades prior to this crisis, in varied rural areas and island contexts, small-scale, community-based creative tourism had appeared as a sustainable place-making solution to foster place vitality, competitive distinctiveness, regenerative development and destination resilience. From an island perspective, this article presents the theoretical framework, methodological approaches, and empirical practices of the Creatour Azores project, which was carried out in the North Atlantic archipelago of the Azores from 2019-2022. Given this timeframe, the investigators and pilot projects that implemented this research-practice project were confronted with the COVID-19 pandemic, which accentuated the isolation and remoteness that tend to characterize islandscapes, especially peripheral islands such as the Azores. At the same time, however, this devastating global pandemic, which impacted the tourism sector especially, ended up offering unexpected opportunities along with special challenges, seeming to underscore the relevance of studies focused on the isolation and remoteness that characterize islandscapes. After describing the project methodologies and practices, as well as the adjustments adopted due to the pandemic, this article considers future possibilities for creative tourism on islands, in general, and in the Azores.