Challenges to Portuguese tourism – Restelo old man or Cristiano Ronaldo?

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 698-704
Author(s):  
Pedro Machado
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The North ◽  
Future Performance ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Entire Country ◽  
Political Decisions

Purpose This paper aims to consider the state of the art of the tourism sector in Portugal, identifying the main problems and some challenges and solutions for the future. Design/methodology/approach The main political decisions related to tourism were analyzed and related to the sector´s future performance. Findings Portugal has been elected the best leading destination of the world, but it is important to outline the strategies needed to retain the quality of life of Portuguese residents and to keep and improve the experience of the tourist. This could be achieved by promoting “Portugal as a whole” (“Portugal por Inteiro”), applying policies of cohesion – policies that promote the development of the entire country, from the interior to the coastline, from the north to the south and the islands. Originality/value This paper presents the perspective of the Center of Portugal Tourism Entity (Turismo Centro de Portugal) and how this tourist destination contributes to the national strategies outlined for the coming years.

Did the context of economic crisis affect the image of Portugal as a tourist destination?

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 452-457
Author(s):  
Adolfo Mesquita Nunes
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Internal Market ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Political Decisions

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the governmental perspective on the effects of the economic crisis on Portugal as a touristic destination. Design/methodology/approach – The main political decisions related to tourism were analysed and related to the sector’s present performance. Findings – Portugal’s public and private entities were able to use the crisis as an opportunity to increase the quality and competitiveness of the tourism sector and, as result, grow more than its main competitors. Originality/value – This paper concludes that there are still some challenges that the tourism sector faces, like the decline of the internal market and the level of prices, but overall, the sector has been showing signs of resilience that shall allow it to overcome its main issues.

Website traffic measurement and rankings: competitive intelligence tools examination

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 423-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Prantl ◽  
Martin Prantl
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Competitive Intelligence ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Traffic Data ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Traffic Measurement ◽  
Data Estimation ◽  
Research Studies

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine and verify the competitive intelligence tools Alexa and SimilarWeb, which are broadly used for website traffic data estimation. Tested tools belong to the state of the art in this area.Design/methodology/approachThe authors use quantitative approach. Research was conducted on a sample of Czech websites for which there are accurate traffic data values, against which the other data sets (less accurate) provided by Alexa and SimilarWeb will be compared.FindingsThe results show that neither tool can accurately determine the ranking of websites on the internet. However, it is possible to approximately determine the significance of a particular website. These results are useful for another research studies which use data from Alexa or SimilarWeb. Moreover, the results show that it is still not possible to accurately estimate website traffic of any website in the world.Research limitations/implicationsThe limitation of the research lies in the fact that it was conducted solely in the Czech market.Originality/valueSignificant amount of research studies use data sets provided by Alexa and SimilarWeb. However, none of these research studies focus on the quality of the website traffic data acquired by Alexa or SimilarWeb, nor do any of them refer to other studies that would deal with this issue. Furthermore, authors describe approaches to measuring website traffic and based on the analysis, the possible usability of these methods is discussed.

Accessible and inclusive tourism: why it is so important for destination branding?

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 719-723
Author(s):  
Pedro Machado
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Active Part ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Destination Branding ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Tourism Destinations ◽  
Destination Brand ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose By embracing the entire community of travellers, despite their capacity, tourism destinations that have the opportunity to appeal to the art of inclusive tourism policies in the Center of Portugal, are analyzed, showing the importance for a tourist destination to adapt these policies to the notoriety of the destination brand. Design/methodology/approach This paper offers a practical viewpoint based on the state-of-the-art of public policies relating to inclusive and accessible tourism in the Center of Portugal and their impacts on the destination branding. Findings Taking into account the territorial specificity of the Center of Portugal, the asymmetries of development and cohesion, Tourism Center of Portugal (TCP) has sought to develop projects and actions in partnership with the different actors in the territory that promote territorial cohesion, integrated and sustainable development and the attractiveness of the inland region. Practical implications All the projects developed to support accessible and inclusive tourism, in which TCP is an active part, create a network of tourist services to become destinations more accessible and inclusive for everyone. Originality/value Inclusive and accessible tourism is little explored by DMOs. In this paper, the case of the Center of Portugal region is presented, highlighting a series of unprecedented initiatives that are being developed, aiming to provide the destination with unique points of differentiation.

Learning domain taxonomies: the TaxoLine approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar El Idrissi Esserhrouchni ◽  
Bouchra Frikh ◽  
Brahim Ouhbi ◽  
Ismail Khalil Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Execution Time ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Relation Extraction ◽  
Ontology Learning ◽  
Conditional Mutual Information ◽  
Web Documents ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Innovative Methodology

Purpose The aim of this paper is to present an online framework for building a domain taxonomy, called TaxoLine, from Web documents automatically. Design/methodology/approach TaxoLine proposes an innovative methodology that combines frequency and conditional mutual information to improve the quality of the domain taxonomy. The system also includes a set of mechanisms that improve the execution time needed to build the ontology. Findings The performance of the TaxoLine framework was applied to nine different financial corpora. The generated taxonomies are evaluated against a gold-standard ontology and are compared to state-of-the-art ontology learning methods. Originality/value The experimental results show that TaxoLine produces high precision and recall for both concept and relation extraction than well-known ontology learning algorithms. Furthermore, it also shows promising results in terms of execution time needed to build the domain taxonomy.

scholarly journals The competitiveness of the Uruguayan rural tourism sector and its potential to attract German tourists

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federico Topolansky Barbe ◽  
Magdalena Gonzalez Triay ◽  
Cornelia Häufele
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Tourism Destination ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
German Market ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
World Tourism Organization ◽  
Tourism Organization ◽  
Poor Management

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the competitiveness of the Uruguayan rural tourism sector against its main competitors from Argentina and Brazil, as perceived by Uruguayan stakeholders on the supply side. The paper will also evaluate the potential of Uruguay as a rural tourism destination in attracting German tourists. Design/methodology/approach – Two different questionnaires were administered, one to Uruguayan rural tourism stakeholders and another one to potential German tourists in Germany. Findings – The findings indicate that the main strengths of Uruguayan rural tourism offer, compared to Argentina and Brazil, are the hospitality and friendliness of local people, the natural and cultural attractions and the country’s security and safety. Main weaknesses identified were the poor management of several destination components that are key to create a successful tourism destination and poor management of the “demand conditions” component of Dwyer and Kim’s (2003) integrated model. Originality/value – There is very limited research done on the competitiveness of Uruguay as a rural tourist destination in attracting foreign tourists (Mackinnon et al., 2009). The objective of this study is to partially fill this gap by assessing how competitive Uruguayan rural tourism is and evaluating whether Uruguay represents an attractive market for German tourists looking for agro tourism and farm holiday destinations. The German market was chosen because it is one of the top tourist-generating countries and one of the biggest spenders in international tourism (The World Tourism organization, 2010). Moreover, most tourists – from outside South America – selecting Uruguay as a tourist destination come from Germany, USA and Australia (Peralta, 2012).

Entrepreneurs’ attitudes toward seasonality in the tourism sector

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 432-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Maria Martin Martin ◽  
Jose Manuel Guaita Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Economic Motives ◽  
Resting Period

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors that condition decision making by entrepreneurs in the tourism sector. Specifically, the authors consider whether the decisions related to seasonal closure are conditioned by non-economic factors related to quality of life. Design/methodology/approach The study uses data from a survey of entrepreneurs in two highly seasonal tourist locations in Spain: one coastal destination and one mountain destination. The information provided by the survey was used to determine the factors that condition the decision to close for part of the year and to analyze the way in which entrepreneurs evaluate the costs and benefits associated with the period of closure. Findings The results show that entrepreneurs acknowledge the cost of shutting down during the off-peak season. However, although they recognize this cost, other elements are important in their decision making such as the quality of life of the entrepreneur, the presence of a more profitable secondary activity in a different destination and the tenure regime of the business. Entrepreneurs attach great importance to factors that justify the closure of establishments for several months a year. This, in turn, means that public policies designed to reduce the intensity of seasonality lose effectiveness. Originality/value This paper sheds light on whether there are underlying non-economic motives that lead to a shutdown during the off-peak season. There are no previous studies that analyze the influence of the decision to close and which consider aspects related to the quality of life of entrepreneurs. Therefore, the study presents the first analysis of entrepreneurs’ assessments of the costs and benefits of a seasonal resting period.

Ontology assessment based on linked data principles

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 453-479
Author(s):  
Leila Zemmouchi-Ghomari ◽  
Kaouther Mezaache ◽  
Mounia Oumessad
Keyword(s):  
Linked Data ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Detailed Interpretation

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate ontologies with respect to the linked data principles. This paper presents a concrete interpretation of the four linked data principles applied to ontologies, along with an implementation that automatically detects violations of these principles and fixes them (semi-automatically). The implementation is applied to a number of state-of-the-art ontologies. Design/methodology/approach Based on a precise and detailed interpretation of the linked data principles in the context of ontologies (to become as reusable as possible), the authors propose a set of algorithms to assess ontologies according to the four linked data principles along with means to implement them using a Java/Jena framework. All ontology elements are extracted and examined taking into account particular cases, such as blank nodes and literals. The authors also provide propositions to fix some of the detected anomalies. Findings The experimental results are consistent with the proven quality of popular ontologies of the linked data cloud because these ontologies obtained good scores from the linked data validator tool. Originality/value The proposed approach and its implementation takes into account the assessment of the four linked data principles and propose means to correct the detected anomalies in the assessed data sets, whereas most LD validator tools focus on the evaluation of principle 2 (URI dereferenceability) and principle 3 (RDF validation); additionally, they do not tackle the issue of fixing detected errors.

Did the context of economic crisis affect the image of Portugal as a tourist destination?

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 466-469
Author(s):  
António Loureiro
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Intrinsic Quality ◽  
Global Distribution Systems ◽  
Official Information

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to reflect on how Portugal has dealt with economic crisis with reference to the tourism industry and from the perspective of a global distribution systems (GDS) operator. Design/methodology/approach – The article is based on information drawn from official information sources and relevant data from Travelport. Findings – In recent years, Portugal has developed a positive image in its source markets as a result of a refined strategy and because of the intrinsic quality of its offer and price competitiveness, thus making it an attractive destination. Now the challenge is to maintain the pace and actions in support of Portugal’s image, thereby ensuring its sustainability, with particular attention to security and the maintenance and cleanliness of public spaces. Originality/value – This article presents the perspective of a GDS operator with respect to the impacts of the Portuguese economic crisis on tourism and the responses made to address these challenges, thereby highlighting the resilience of tour operators.

Portuguese tourism strategy 2027 Leading the tourism of the future

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 646-652 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luís Araújo
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
The Future ◽  
Territorial Cohesion ◽  
Political Decisions ◽  
Innovation And Entrepreneurship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the Portuguese Tourism Strategy for 2027. Design/methodology/approach The main political decisions related to tourism are analysed and are related to the sector’s present performance. Findings Current tourism results show the sector’s capacity in generating more revenue, more employment and the ability to increasingly spread out the activity throughout the year and across the territory. Originality/value This article concludes that there remain some challenges that the tourism sector faces, including the need to minimize the effects of seasonality, increase territorial cohesion, capitalize tourism companies, increase innovation and entrepreneurship, among others. All these are part of the main issues for Portuguese tourism in the next decade.

Information processing by elderly consumers: a five-decade review

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianluigi Guido ◽  
Marco Pichierri ◽  
Cristian Rizzo ◽  
Verdiana Chieffi ◽  
George Moschis
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Processing Activity ◽  
Elderly Consumers

Purpose The purpose of this study is to review scholarly research on elderly consumers’ information processing and suggest implications for services marketing. Design/methodology/approach The review encompasses a five-decade period (1970–2018) of academic research and presents relevant literature in four main areas related to information processing: sensation, attention, interpretation and memory. Findings The study illustrates how each of the aforementioned phases of the information processing activity may affect how elderly individuals buy and consume products and services, emphasizing the need for a better comprehension of the elderly to develop effectual marketing strategies. Originality/value The study provides readers with detailed state-of-the-art knowledge about older consumers’ information processing, offering a comprehensive review of academic research that companies can use to improve the effectiveness of their marketing efforts that target the elderly market.

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