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Women in Food Tourism: The Narrative of Producers
Food tourism impacts the local development of communities from economic, cultural, and environmental perspectives. Also, it serves as a means for preserving and promoting traditions and fostering a sense of belonging within ...
El Storytelling en la marca de destinos turísticos: el caso de Girona = Storytelling in tourism destination branding: The case of Girona
Storytelling as strategy to transmit values and identity of a brand has acquired relevance during the last years. However, this concept is already relatively underdeveloped in academic literature on tourism destinations. ...
Anàlisi dinàmica de la competitivitat dels sectors productius i de les branques d'activitat per a Catalunya i Balears: una anàlisi retrospectiva
L'objectiu de l'estudi és presentar un sistema d'indicadors que, basat en l'anàlisi dinàmica de l'excedent brut d'explotació real i de les seves variables explicatives, permet obtenir una jerarquia competitiva dels sectors ...
Community-Based Tourism through Food: A Proposal of Sustainable Tourism Indicators for Isolated and Rural Destinations in Mexico
Purpose: this article presents a conceptual framework for examining community tourism as a sustainable livelihood through food tourism, considering the significant increase in community-based tourism in Mexico and the ...
Back to the future: challenges of European tourism of tomorrow
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify and describe the most recent (or emerging) trends likely to have a major impact in shaping the future of tourism in Europe. Design/methodology/approach The methodology of ...
Tourism Accessibility and Its Impact on the Spiritual Sustainability of Sacred Sites
Religious heritage sites are defined by their nature, both religious and non-religious (historical, social, cultural, etc.), as being pilgrimage destinations, as well as tourist attractions. The main aim of this paper is ...
Cross-Disciplinary Analysis of Cooperative Learning Dimensions Based on Higher Education Students’ Perceptions
This study analyzes the perception, mainly on motivation, interpersonal relationships, and learning outcomes, of higher education students from seven university disciplines derived from Cooperative Learning (CL) activities ...
Musei in campi profughi. Il caso del Sahara occidentale
Sobre l'expedició que membres de la Universitat de Girona realitza al camp de refugiats de Tindouf (Algèria, Sahara occidental) i el desenvolupament del Museu Nacional del Poble Saharaui
Análisis de las Reservas Hoteleras en Bogotá durante Lavitrina Turística de Anato 2016 = Analysis of Hotel Reservations in Bogotá during Anato Tourist Lavitrina 2016
The aim of this research is to study the behavior of the guests who booked hotels in Bogotá -Colombia whose largest market segment belongs to the Business Industry. Evaluating the online reputation on ...
Análisis de comentarios en redes sociales para mejorar la reputación online hotelera = Analysis from reviews in social media to improve hotel’s online reputation
Today, hoteliers have problems with handling online reputation due to bad reviews they’ve received on social networks. The aim of this research is to identify the key factors to consider in the operation of each hotel ...
Film Distribution in New Zealand: Industrial Organisation, Power Relations and Market Failure
This paper provides an overview of the distribution of feature films in New Zealand to add to the scarce literature on this topic. It studies the relationships among distributors and local producers. Based on a perspective ...
Investigating perceived risks in international travel
This study analyses perceived risks in international tourism and looks at how several key indicators contribute to the individuals' perception of risk in international travel. The purpose of this article is twofold: firstly, ...
First-time versus repeat visitors’ behavior patterns: a GPS analysis = El comportamiento espacial de los visitantes de primera visita versus los visitantes repetidores: un análisis con GPS
Past research conducted on visitors' behavior has highlighted the differences between first-time and repeat visitors in urban and natural settings. To determine whether these differences also exist in a monumental city, ...
Factors Affecting Time Spent Visiting Heritage City Areas
Urban tourism is growing fast, and in many cities visitor influx tends to concentrate in historic urban centers. When there are large numbers of visitors, deepening the knowledge on visitor time consumption is critical to ...
Tendencia de la oferta de festivales en Cataluña = Tendencies of the festivals offer in Catalonia 2017
This paper displays the current state of the offer for festivals hold in the Autonomous Community of Catalonia, in Spain. The study comprises the four provinces of the region: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida and Tarragona. The ...
Overtourism: residents’ perceptions of tourism impact as an indicator of resident social carrying capacity - case study of a Spanish heritage town
This paper aims to assess the value of impact perceptions as an indicator of social carrying capacity in the heritage town of Besalú, Spain. Additionally, it assesses the impact tourism dependence and other socio-demographic ...
Using GPS to analysis time-space tourists' behaviour: a pre-test study in Boí Valley = Using GPS to analysis time-space tourists’ behaviour: a pre-test study in Boí valley
This article is an exploratory analysis of the use of GPS for the study of visitors' behaviour in an open space. The Boi Valley is an open space that offers important tourism resources, sothat the study of visitors' paths ...
Eslóganes turísticos: un análisis de los eslóganes de los destinos catalanes
Slogans represent an essential key element in building brands. A good brand uses slogans: they improve brand image, and help to facilitate recognition and recall (Kohli, Leuthesser and Suri, 2007). In spite of this, there ...
Propuesta metodológica para el anàlisis del comportamiento de la demanda de turismo cultural a partir del diseño de un grafo valorizado: el ejemplo de Girona
In this article we present a methodological proposal, based in the direct observation of the visitors in cultural spaces using a valued graph, to know the way as the visitors come closer to the heritage of the monumental ...
El comportament dels visitants del Barri Vell de Girona
Els autors fan un exhaustiu estudi sobre el comportament del turistes al Barri Vell de Girona, emprant-hi com a metodologia l’observació directa i una mostra procedent de diverses fonts estadístiques
