Archives: Events

Chair persons:

• Luís Lima Santos | On-site

Description:

Visit ITC2022 sessions. This session will NOT be available online.

Presentations:

1. Events as transformational experience (Krzysztof Celuch) | On-site
2. A sustainable approach to the financial recovery of the hotel sector: Insights from Portugal (José Fernandes, Kelly Maguire, Luís Lima Santos) | On-site
3. Rethinking the tourist satisfaction at destination level through importance-performance analysis: Evidence from Madeira Island (Mara Franco, António Almeida, Rui Castanho) | On-site
4. Diagnosis of sustainability in Portuguese tourism SMEs (Maria Carmen Pardo, Goretti Silva, Mariana Oliveira) | On-site
5. Tourism business and COVID-19 pandemic in Lithuania: Challenges, adaptation, opportunities (Gintare Pociute-Sereikiene, Viktorija Baranauskienė, Edis Kriaučiūnas) | On-site
6. Political instability and tourism sector resilience: The case of Ukraine (Łukasz Quirini-Popławski, Natalia Tomczewska-Popowycz, Sławomir Dorocki) | On-site
7. Liquidity or profitability: What is the goal in Portuguese restaurants? (Ana Ramires, Ana Lucas, Paulo Marques) | On-site

Chair persons:

• Catarina Martins | On-site
• Vitor Ambrósio | On-site

Description:

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Presentations:

1. Pilgrimage Way in Azores (Portugal): Promoting religious and creative tourism (Vitor Ambrósio) | On-site
2. Dark Tourism – A new tourist product to be developed in the North of Portugal? (Eugénia Devile, Ana Sofia Costa, Susana Lima, Andreia Moura) | On-site
3. Critical success factors of a regional development strategy for olive oil tourism: A case study using the Delphi methodology (Francisco Dias, Fernanda Maria Oliveira, Inês Soares) | On-site
4. The Olive4All project – Raising community awareness about olive heritage (Fernanda Maria Fernandes Oliveira, Francisco Dias, Inês Soares) | On-site
5. Travelling to some Inquisition sites, in Portugal and ex-colonies (Isilda Leitão) | On-site
6. Managing hunting as a sustainable tourism recreational activity in Atlantic Canada (Roselyne Okech) | On-site
7. Analyze the touristic interests and motivations that lead tourists to visit the West Region of Portugal (Ana Elisa Sousa, Daniela Amorim, Paulo Almeida) | On-site

Chair persons:

• Catarina Martins | On-site
• Vitor Ambrósio | On-site
• Bruno Sousa | Online

Description:

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Presentations:

1. Creating value by implementing the Proof of Purchase in Dock Label: Effects of a Portuguese fishing community on place attachment and developing sustainable consumption in local restaurants (Anabela Elias Almeida, Susana Mendes, Patrícia Borges) | Online
2. Tourists’ motivations in protected areas: The case of Vale do Tua Regional Natural Park, Northeast Portugal (Luisa Lopes, Salete Esteves, Lara Santos) | Online
3. Exploring the push and pull factors to visit nature-based tourism destinations: A systematic review (Sazu Sardar, Sangsan Bhumisathan, Azharul Islam) | Online
4. Escape to nature changes in recreational behaviour of tourists caused by COVID-19 pandemic (Patrycja Brańka, Bernadetta Zawilińska) | Online
5. Recreational opportunities of wellness tourism (Marina Metreveli, Otar Japaridze) | Online
6. Local identity and sustainable tourism: Results of a survey with young students from Madeira University about their local community (Naidea Nunes) | Online
7. The evaluation of sustainable tourism criteria in developing special interest tourism: Example of Bozdağ – İzmir, Turkey (Okan Ogan, Ferdi Akbaş, Füsun Baykal) | Online

Social relationships in tourism business during the COVID-19 pandemic

This is keynote lecture presented by

Katarzyna Czernek-Marszałek

is an associate professor, the head of the Department of Management Theory at the University of Economics in Katowice in Poland. She specializes in inter-organizational relationships, in particular cooperation and coopetition. Her research focuses on issues related to the tourism sector. An important element of her scientific interests is also the methodology of qualitative research and the use of Social Network Analysis in empirical research.

She is the author of about 90 scientific publications, including two her own monographs and several papers published in highly ranked journals indexed on the Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2021 list (e.g. Tourism Management, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Travel Research, Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Destination Marketing & Management, and Current Issues in Tourism). Winner of national and international awards for scientific work, including award of the Committee of the Regions of the European Union for a doctoral thesis defended in 2010, a scholarship of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for outstanding young scientists (2016 edition) and the Award of the Minister of Education and Science for significant achievements in scientific activity (2022 edition).

Since May 2021, she has been an associate editor in the journal Annals of Tourism Research. She is the head and member of Polish and international research teams, as well as a member of the European Academy of Management (EURAM), the Polish Economic Society and the research community CENA – Coopetition, Ecosystems, Networks and Alliances.

Sustainable center of Portugal

This is keynote lecture presented by

Pedro Machado

is since 2018 the President of the Regional Tourism Entity Centro de Portugal, public entity that has the promotion, valorisation and development of tourist potential mission in the Centro Region of Portugal, and the President of Regional Agency for External Tourism Promotion of Centro de Portugal.

The Centro de Portugal region is recognized with several quality awards, such as the “Gold Award, Best National Tourism Board / DMO Campaign” by the International Travel & Tourism Awards – World Travel Market, “Best Regional Tourism Entity” by AHRESP, and “Best National Tourism Region” by Publituris.

Pedro Machado holds a bachelor in Philosophy, a master degree in Educational Sciences, Specialization – Educational Psychology, and currently attends doctoral studies in Food Heritage: Cultures and Identities, by University of Coimbra. He is a member of advisory councils of several public and private institutions of higher education, as well as invited external personality of departments and of technical and scientific councils.