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Creative tourism as boosting tool for placemaking strategies in peripheral areas: insights from Portugal
Journal Title
Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research
Year (definitive publication)
2022
Language
English
Country
United Kingdom
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Abstract
Creative tourism is starting in Portugal as a labelled and structured alternative aiming to produce a boosting effect in peripheral areas. By linking places, host communities and tourists in the cocreation of differentiated experiences, this tourism offer challenges destinations and communities to be creative and reinvent themselves as placemaking agents in the coproduction of territorial amenities. As such, creative tourism can be a useful tool to complement placemaking strategies in peripheral areas, once it has the ability to engage local communities and generate territorial benefits. This hypothesis is explored through a case study and preliminary findings, obtained through focus group, in-depth interviews and content analysis, show the advantages of planned placemaking strategies for the territorial promotion. The comparisons in terms of intervention focus by types of entities and placemaking strategies confirm the complexity of these dynamics, pointing relevant factors used to mobilize local tangible and intangible resources.
Acknowledgements
CREATOUR Project—Creative Tourism
Destination Development in Small Cities and Rural Areas (Reference No. 16437) financed by the
Programa de Actividades Conjuntas (PAC) of Portugal 2020, through COMPETE 2020,
POR Lisboa, POR Algarve, and FCT.
Keywords
Creative tourism,Placemaking strategies,peripheral areas,Portugal,Sustainbility,Case study
Fields of Science and Technology Classification
- Other Social Sciences - Social Sciences
Funding Records
Funding Reference | Funding Entity |
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16437 | Comissão Europeia |
UIDB/03127/2020 | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
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