terça-feira, abril 19, 2016

"Evaluating the Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Culture: National and International Tourists' Behaviors and Perceptions"

«Abstract:
In 2012, Guimarães hosted the European Capital of Culture (ECOC). An evaluation of this event was needed because public, private, and community funds were involved. This analysis considers tourists as external and independent stakeholders who assessed the cultural activities developed during the event as well as the attributes of the city. The main objectives of the research conducted were to assess the visitors' motivations during the hosting of the Guimarães ECOC 2012, their perceptions towards the city, and if national and international visitors kept different perceptions of it. For 2 months, in the summer of 2012, a survey was applied to 390 visitors. The results revealed that hosting the 2012 ECOC was a major contribution towards attracting new visitors to the city (though many of the visitors stayed only for a short period of time). Based on tourists' perceptions, the tangible heritage was clearly detached from the set of attributes associated to Guimarães, whereas the intangible heritage was less noted. The Portuguese tourists seem to be more prone to value the tangible heritage than the foreign tourists. Overall, Guimarães received a very positive evaluation relating to the city's image and, as stated by tourists, visiting it was declared to be highly recommended. Following the obtained empirical results, the need for changing the city's promoted image emerges, which has been too centered on its tangible heritage. In doing so, it is believed that there will be longer overnight stays by visitors.»

Laurentina Vareiro
J. Freitas Santos
Paula Cristina Remoaldo
J. Cadima Ribeiro

(resumo de artigo entretanto publicado em Event Management, Vol. 20, Nº 1, 2016, págs. 81-97 - 

segunda-feira, abril 18, 2016

"Discussing the posthosting evaluation of a mega sporting event: The perception of Warsaw Residents toward UEFA EURO 2012"

«Abstract
The aim of this paper is to identify Warsaw residents’ perceptions and attitudes toward the UEFA EURO 2012 tournament. The investigation focused on how residents of Warsaw perceived the impacts of the tournament one year after the event. A questionnaire survey was applied using a stratified sampling method to 480 residents of Warsaw. The results of the survey and ordered logit regressions show that although the residents did not perceive that the economic benefits of the tournament were spread uniformly, a large majority valued the tournament’s role in promoting Warsaw as a tourist destination and enhancing the international identity of the city. Whereas residents generally displayed positive attitudes toward EURO 2012 in terms of lifting their pride and bringing the community closer together, they also noted some negative impacts of the event. The opinions expressed about the tournament depended on the age, education, and income of the responders. A majority of the residents agreed that the positive impacts of EURO 2012 outweighed the negative.»


(reprodução de resumo de artigo tornado disponível nesta data, por via eletrónica, no sítio da revista Tourism and Hospitality Research - http://thr.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/04/09/1467358416642009.abstract

sábado, abril 16, 2016

DRd - Desenvolvimento Regional em debate: v. 6, n. 1 (2016)

«Caros leitores,

A revista DRd - Desenvolvimento Regional em debate acaba de publicar seu último número, disponível em http://www.periodicos.unc.br/index.php/drd.
Convidamos a navegar no sumário da revista para acessar os artigos e outros itens de seu interesse.

Agradecemos seu interesse e apoio contínuo em nosso trabalho,
Valdir Roque Dallabrida
Universidade do Contestado
Fone 47-91541468
Fax 47-36226696
valdirroqued897@gmail.com
Professor e pesquisador com atuação no Mestrado em Desenvolvimento Regional da UnC. Editor-chefe da Revista DRd.

DRd - Desenvolvimento Regional em debate
v. 6, n. 1 (2016)
Sumário
http://www.periodicos.unc.br/index.php/drd/issue/view/40

Editorial
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Editorial (1-3)
        Valdir Roque Dallabrida,        Maria Luíza Milani


Artigos
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Territory, geographical indication and territorial development (4-21)
        Marcos Aurelio Saquet

Tipicidad territorial: elemento fundacional de la construcción de una Denominación de Origen (22-40)
        Marcelo Agustín Champredonde

Mutações no mundo vitivinícola: a Indicação Geográfica como estratégia de qualificação (41-62)
        Volnei Krause Kohls,    Flávio Sacco dos Anjos, Nádia Velleda Caldas

Determinantes do movimento pendular numa aglomeração urbana interiorana: o caso da AUNE no Rio Grande do Sul (63-89)
        Cristiano Stamm,        Manoela Silveira dos Santos,    Maria Alice Oliveira da
Cunha Lahorgue

Construção e análise do Índice de Desenvolvimento Rural para as Mesorregiões Norte e Jequitinhonha do Estado de Minas Gerais (90-119)
        Rosimere Miranda Fortini,       Suely de Fátima Ramos Silveira, Vinicius de
Souza Moreira

Produto Interno Bruto (PIB) versus Índice de Desenvolvimento Humano Municipal (IDHM) na Microrregião de Dourados/MS (120-135)
        Vilmar Nogueira Duarte, Karoline Almeida Cavalcanti

Repercussões territoriais dos investimentos em cultura na Região “Rota Missões” do Rio Grande do Sul. (136-158)
        Victor da Silva Oliveira,       Tiago Costa Martins

Expansão da Educação Superior Stricto Sensu: o sudoeste do Paraná (159-174)
        Nayara Massucatto,      Giovanna Pezarico,      Marlize Rubin Oliveira

Mortalidade infantil no Planalto Norte Catarinense e as questões do desenvolvimento da região (175-191)
        Adriana Moro Wieczorkievicz,    Marley Vanice Deschamps,        Camila Heiden Glonek
Junkes

A interiorização da violência social: uma análise do interior paulista (192-217)
        Leonardo Andrade,       Hélio Braga Filho


Resenhas
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O papel da classe criativa na sociedade atual: resenha (218-221)
        Mayara Rohrbacher Sakr


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DRd - Desenvolvimento Regional em debate
http://www.periodicos.unc.br/index.php/drd»

(reprodução de mensagem que me caiu entretanto na caixa de correio eletrónico, proveniente da entidade identificada)

quarta-feira, abril 06, 2016

Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Regionais: request for manuscripts

Dear Colleague,

                               REQUEST FOR MANUSCRIPTS
Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Regionais (Portuguese Review of Regional Studies), ISSN 1645-586X, is a quarterly journal published by the Portuguese Association for Regional Development (APDR).
The journal is indexed in Econlit (and associated bases: JEL on CD, e-JEL and Journal of Economic Literature), in WebQualis and in Scopus.
The main purpose of Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Regionais (RPER) is to publish the results of the most recent research in the interdisciplinary area of Regional Science, embracing regional, local and urban studies, and is currently accepting manuscripts for publication. We will be glad if you partner with the journal, by sending in your original research papers.
We have a fast review process and our main aim is to inform authors of the decision on their manuscripts within one and half month after submission.  Following acceptance, a paper will normally be published in the second or third issues coming after.
For enquiries, send e-mail to the RPER executive secretariat (rper.geral@gmail.com) or visit our website (http://www.apdr.pt/siterper/EN/homeEN.html).
We await the submission of your manuscript for publishing in our next issues.

Best regards,

J. Cadima Ribeiro
Chief Editor
Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Regionais
ISSN 1645-586X