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Competitivitat del turisme religiós en el marc contemporani. Els espais sagrats i el turisme
The main aim is to define the concept of religious tourism in order to understand the complex nature of this phenomenon. Firstly, we analyze the concept of sacred, and especially the relationship with sacred spaces as main ...
La imatge turística del Pirineu català: el cas de la Vall de Camprodon
This doctoral thesis will try to identify all structural elements that form the tourist landscape of the Valley of Camprodon, primarily from the tension between tradition/modernity vectors and between the nodes/semiologic ...
Turismo rural comunitario como una propuesta metodológica de Innovación Social para comunidades en conflicto. Caso Montes de María
The purpose of this research is to present a methodology for Social Innovation to communities in conflict (characterized by poverty, but with great natural and cultural wealth); for which it is proposed to Rural Community ...
Food tourism in rural areas: the case of cheese in Vall de Boí, a World Heritage Site
Food tourism is a type of tourism that over recent years has been achieving a greater interest by academics and tourism professionals, and evidently also as a tourist motivation. The framework of the thesis is based on ...
Sentidos e significados dos Jogos Olímpicos Rio 2016
Aquesta recerca ha tingut com a objectiu investigar els sentits i significats dels Jocs Olímpics Rio 2016. Per això, s’ha realitzat un estudi de cas amb diferents grups d’anàlisi seleccionats per a la recerca. D’entre els ...
Tourist behavior in a cross-border area: the case of Nicosia, Cyprus
Tourists are crossing borders naturally when consuming an area. Therefore, cross-border tourism studies are gaining relevance. A qualitative analysis showed the lack of research on cross-border tourism from the demand side. ...
Desarrollo de un destino de turismo médico en el contexto de la frontera México-Estados Unidos: el caso de Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México
La asistencia sanitaria es uno de los temas primordiales del siglo XXI. Los problemas relacionados con la atención médica contemporánea han generado una creciente demanda de servicios de pacientes extranjeros. En el marco ...
Le système touristique comme un facteur de développement local dans les moyennes villes à travers des attractifs: le cas de Fafe au Portugal
In this thesis carried through the Doctorate Programm about Tourism from the University of Girona, we decided to investigate whether the tourism system could be considered as a factor in local development in medium-sized ...
Accessible tourism: an integrated model of the behaviour of tourists with disabilities in a destination
People with disabilities face a series of constraints when visiting a tourism destination. These constraints have a disproportionate effect on their behaviour compared to those without disabilities. The first article of ...
Mitjans digitals i públics escènics. La relació entre el públic i el producte cultural a través de la xarxa. Cas d'estudi: Festival Temporada Alta
The aim is to determine how the media environment affects the way in which live performance is received, distributed, and participated in. Based particularly on media and cultural convergence, the study analyses contemporary ...
Food consumption of Chinese outbound tourists in Spain
This dissertation aims to understand the food consuming behaviours of international tourists in their long-haul travel. This thesis is presented as a compendium of publications, which the first one intents to build a new ...
Communicative action in collaborative governance: striving for consensus to create knowledge and make collective decisions
This thesis adopts Habermas’s theory of communicative action to explore how consensus-oriented actions contribute to knowledge creation and collective decision-making in collaborative governance processes. Through studying ...
Incidencia de la reputación online en la ocupación y rentabilidad hotelera: estudios de caso en Latinoamérica
Purpose: To prove the incidence of online reputation in the occupation and profitability of hotels in Latin America. Methodology: Based on the information provided by the Hotel Chain GHL, financial and online reputation ...
Turismo de base comunitaria y emprendimiento indígena. El papel de la gobernanza tradicional en la gestión de empresas de base comunitaria turísticas en Oaxaca, México
This doctoral thesis aims to contribute to the development of an emerging theory of community-based tourism (CBT), defining it as community-driven governance (CDG) and as social entrepreneurship, both analyzed as dimensions ...
Turismo sostenible y desarrollo: análisis del desarrollo turístico sostenible colombiano mediante el estudio de la efectividad de los programas de asistencia al desarrollo como modelos de ayuda a la sostenibilidad local
The identification of cases that allow to identify if the relationship between international cooperation and tourism can be generator of good practices, in order to design a methodological tool to analyse and evaluate ...
Evaluation of the role of Iran National Museum in the cultural tourism in Iran
There has always been a controversy in relevant studies about the role of the museum in the tourism industry, particularly in cultural tourism has always remained controversial in relevant studies. The studies which have ...
Branding regional destinations: an integrated stakeholders perspective
This doctoral thesis explores the brand development process of regional destinations in depth, focusing on the supply-side perspective and the concept of brand identity, as well as the perceptions of stakeholders involved ...
La formación en patrimonio cultural en los estudios de Grado en Turismo. El caso de los estudiantes de Barcelona
The purpose pursued with this study is that future graduates develop the skills and professional abilities that the sector requires. Human capital is considered as a key element in the tourism system. It reveals, however, ...
Furthering social exchange theory in the study of resident impact perceptions: three approximations to the limits to tourism growth
This thesis links the limits of tourism growth and social exchange theory (SET) through tourism impacts perceptions of residents. SET has been the most widely used theory to explain the perceptions by residents of tourism ...
World heritage brand personality comparative analysis
Currently, World Heritage Sites (hereafter, WHSs) are perceived as a prominent tourism brand, a fact that encourages many countries to increase their listed WHSs (Su & Lin, 2014) so that they may benefit from the use of ...
