GI-1 Turismo, Identidades e Património Cultural
Departamento: Centro de Estudos Transdisciplinares para o Desenvolvimento
Universidad: Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD)
Investigador principal: Eduardo Gonçalves
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Investigadores del grupo:
- Xerardo Pereiro
- Veronique Joukes
- Varico Pereira
- Pedro Miguel Simões
- Maria Isabel Costa
- Maria Emília Abreu
- José Reis
- Jorge Sousa
- João Mendonça
- Henrique Rodrigues
- Gonçalo Marques
- Eduardo Gonçalves
- Carlos Fernandes
- Carlos Almeida
- Aurélio Olivei
Líneas de trabajo: Group members pursue their research with the following aims in mind:
a) Taking culture as a process and a product, and viewing cultural tourism and heritage tourism as largely synonymous, a priority focus will be on heritage tourism (as a whole) and the planning and management of tourism based on heritage attractions (in particular);
b) Using a largely social anthropological perspective, attention is directed towards cultural heritage and social memory, seen as largely social constructs and as meta-cultural symbolic representations of identities;
c) Tourism, cultural policy and heritage management constitute a mutually interpenetrating system, in which the consumption of cultural tourism has a significant impact on the form and location of cultural attractions, on cultural dynamics and on relations between stakeholders in the tourism system as a whole.
From a methodological standpoint, the research group will:
a) analyse inputs & outputs of tourist demand in order to assess its
socio-economic impacts; and
b) examine the effects of tourism on host communities and on tourists themselves, with a view to evaluating socio-cultural outcomes;
c) combining quantitative with fieldwork-based participatory research, and with frequent recourse to mixed qualitative/quantitative approaches, thereby facilitating the analysis of the function and meaning of sustainable tourism systems in varied contexts and from the stakeholder standpoints; and
d) triangulating observation-based fieldwork results with data drawn from documentary, oral, discursive and verbal sources.
Servicios: In addition to its facilities at UTAD, the group has its own premises in Maia (provided by ISMAI) endowed with excellent technological infrastructure. It also joint-manages PASOS – Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural, a peer review, extensively-indexed journal (www.pasosonline.org), the quality and impact of which has been internationally recognised. It supports two undergraduate degree courses in Tourism (at ISMAI and UTAD), a Masters in Tourism, Heritage & Development (currently at ISMAI, and to be offered jointly in future), and plans to launch a joint ISMAI-UTAD doctoral programme in Tourism & Cultural Heritage on the near future.
Categoría: Industrias creativas, TIC y Turismo
