CEA is currently accepting applications for social work student interns in its Afterschool Partial and Supplemental Programs. Interns will learn and be involved in the following aspects of its Therapeutic Support & Wellness Program: ... more
CEA is currently accepting applications for social work student interns in its Afterschool Partial and Supplemental Programs. Interns will learn and be involved in the following aspects of its Therapeutic Support & Wellness Program: Intensive Psycho-Social Assessments (conducted primarily in potential participant’s home) Profile development Treatment Plan Development Conducting Groups, Individual & Family therapy Treatment team meetings Team meetings with the psychiatrist (partial only) Documentation
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Currently, given the different dynamics of competition, food retailers are increasingly betting on private labels as a strategy of differentiation and retention of competitive advantages. To this extent, this study aims to assess the... more
Currently, given the different dynamics of competition, food retailers are increasingly betting on private labels as a strategy of differentiation and retention of competitive advantages. To this extent, this study aims to assess the antecedents of the purchase intention of food retailers’ private labels, as well as to understand the managerial practices and (post) pandemic consumption retail perspective in a Portuguese context. The results obtained, through a quantitative analysis by means of multiple linear regressions, on a random sample of customers (n = 300) indicate that customer satisfaction and attitude towards his/her own brand are quite favourable, as demonstrated by the existence of a high loyalty to his/her own brand. Additionally, they reveal that the purchase experience, the private-label image, the perceived risk, and the COVID-19 pandemic are prior attitudes towards the private label and its mediation in the purchase intention and recommendation of its products. Fina...
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Events are important drivers of attractiveness for tourist destinations. All types of events represent an opportunity for projection for the territory where they are developed. The holding of events has been a strong strategic bet to... more
Events are important drivers of attractiveness for tourist destinations. All types of events represent an opportunity for projection for the territory where they are developed. The holding of events has been a strong strategic bet to boost tourism and local economies. The impacts arising from the events affect not only the local community, but the entire territory. Therefore, the events sector has been playing a fundamental role in terms of the attractiveness and competitiveness of tourist destinations. The contribution is notable above all in the impetus given to the creation and development of new tourist products seen as a necessity for the holding of events and the territory where they are held. The development of events leads to investment in spaces conducive to practices associated with the realization of events and the improvement of infrastructure conditions, ending up being catalysts for a “territorial renewal”. It can also lead to awareness of the protection of heritage re...
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This chapter aims to reveal the growing importance of cultural tourism, reflected in the cultural heritage of cities and its concrete tourist experience in a digital age society. One of the stipulated goals was to understand the existing... more
This chapter aims to reveal the growing importance of cultural tourism, reflected in the cultural heritage of cities and its concrete tourist experience in a digital age society. One of the stipulated goals was to understand the existing relationship between tourist and cultural appropriation with the mediation of the digital. The chapter focuses on a city located in the central region of Portugal and followed a quantitative and qualitative analysis methodology. The digital era has been fostering a fundamental capital in the promotion of the existing resources in cities to attract visitors and to reveal the tourist experiences developed in the visited tourist destinations. The main conclusion is the interactions that take place between heritage, tourist experience and ICT implying connections that tourists spontaneously comment through online resources. When making their comments they end up demarcating their tourist experience classifying it according to their expectations in relat...
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La arquitectura popular rural de Lanzarote, supone una modalidad arquitectónica que ha sufrido un recorrido de especiales circunstancias en su estudio e investigación. El abandono de las viviendas de nuestros antepasados fue la... more
La arquitectura popular rural de Lanzarote, supone una modalidad arquitectónica que ha sufrido un recorrido de especiales circunstancias en su estudio e investigación. El abandono de las viviendas de nuestros antepasados fue la consecuencia más inmediata del desarrollo turístico acontecido en las islas, en la década de los sesenta de la centuria pasada, por la progresiva desaparición de formas de vida tradicionales, que perjudicó enormemente al patrimonio cultural de entornos rurales. La sencillez, simplicidad y funcionalidad que la caracteriza,fue fuente de inspiración de muchos de los arquitectos que trabajaron en el desarrollo de la arquitectura del turismo de masas. César Manrique, advierte de los peligros de la acelerada desaparición de estas formas, en los años setenta del siglo pasado, cuando la isla, se preparaba para recibir un importante número de turistas, consecuencia de la nueva industria que emergía. En este trabajo, trataremos de identificar las características princi...
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The transformation of consumer culture in contemporaneity has led to the double movement of globalization and glocalization, in their apparent oxymoron: the promotion of globalized values and interests, on one hand, and the increase in... more
The transformation of consumer culture in contemporaneity has led to the double movement of globalization and glocalization, in their apparent oxymoron: the promotion of globalized values and interests, on one hand, and the increase in value of local assets as sources of development and promotion, on the other – something which is very clear when thinking about cultural tourism and the differential role of various forms of heritage. This points us to the notion of various scales of impact and dissemination, and the possibilities of working with them, rather than focusing specifically on promoting international or national touristic products. In this paper, we have sought to analyse the ways in which such touristic promotion can be undertaken with the help of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies), especially in the context of gamification of the touristic experience, referring to an ongoing project in the city of Tomar. In the context, this seeks to promote a more sustaina...
In the context of the Investigation Seminar of the Masters in Digital Content Production by the Tomar Polytechnic Institute, a project was started ...
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Taking as reference the museum sector by Frame Law of Portuguese museums (Law n ° 47/2004 of 19 th August), security in museums, it was considered ap propriate to reflect on the implications that the development of these principl es... more
Taking as reference the museum sector by Frame Law of Portuguese museums (Law n ° 47/2004 of 19 th August), security in museums, it was considered ap propriate to reflect on the implications that the development of these principl es brought to world of Portuguese museums. The definition of the museum Law determines the common requirements to Portuguese museums, which agree on their functions, such as: s tudy and research, development, and documentation of inventory, conservation, security, interpretation and exhibition and education. With the publication of the Frame Law of Portuguese museums in 2004 the principles of the national museum policy were established. By being an undeniable impact that this instrument brought to the recognition of the importance of sec urity in museums, this article considers their importance in motivating an increasing production o f documents that demarcated the security of museums plans.
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Certification is currently an unavoidable theme in several competitive management strategies, in that it reduces the cost of production of goods and services on the one hand and ensures quality consumer on the other. To obtain... more
Certification is currently an unavoidable theme in several competitive management strategies, in that it reduces the cost of production of goods and services on the one hand and ensures quality consumer on the other. To obtain certification, the agents must meet certain standards (national or international) that vary depending on b the objectives of the different types of management systems operators (environmental, food, health, etc..). Being a tourist destination the stage of tourism, this can cover many operators, since there is no limitation as to its size or the number of agents it may contain. Thus , it becomes difficult to Full Certification of Fate , since besides being affect virtually all types of management systems , there is currently a Standard covering the whole tourism system , is currently attending the certification only some of the systems that are most evident in tourism . In this article we intend to make the analogy between the three axes Locations, Management a...
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The main objective of this research is to identify if the Institutions of Higher Education (IHE) impel the creation of tourism companies, and in what form ...
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Portugal encontra-se referenciado como um destino estrategico para o desenvolvimento do turismo cultural e valorizacao dos territorios. A diversidade cultural e criativa assinala a emergencia de uma sociedade baseada na imaterialidade... more
Portugal encontra-se referenciado como um destino estrategico para o desenvolvimento do turismo cultural e valorizacao dos territorios. A diversidade cultural e criativa assinala a emergencia de uma sociedade baseada na imaterialidade como recurso social e economico. Um crescente reconhecimento sobre o papel do patrimonio e da criatividade no desenvolvimento dos territorios e na atratividade dos destinos turisticos apontam para dinâmicas culturais e patrimoniais “autenticas”, intensificando e valorizando o carater unico da oferta turistica de cada destino. Partindo da ideia que o territorio e “um lugar de inter- relacoes humanas densas e a cultura e um fenomeno que tende a ter intensidade especifica local” (Scott, 1997:324), a diversidade cultural e criativa contribui para a diferenciacao dos “lugares turisticos”. Nesta perspetiva e entendendo-se um territorio como sendo uma interacao do visitante entre “experiencia, relacao e co-criacao”, a gestao turistica e cultural assume import...
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Educar nao e um ato simples. A finalidade da Educacao e formar cidadaos. E cidadao nao e qualquer pessoa. Tem de preencher determinadas caracteristicas, como possuir conhecimentos teoricos e praticos, capacidades e habilidades que o... more
Educar nao e um ato simples. A finalidade da Educacao e formar cidadaos. E cidadao nao e qualquer pessoa. Tem de preencher determinadas caracteristicas, como possuir conhecimentos teoricos e praticos, capacidades e habilidades que o tornem necessario a familia e a sociedade em que vive. A sociedade tambem sofrera modificacoes pela Educacao, transformando-se em um espaco seguro e humano, onde o cidadao solidario e equilibrado possa viver e agir. Mas, Educacao exige aprendizagem. Aprendizagem exige material didatico. Principalmente a EAD – Educacao a Distância – que nao possui espacos fixos como a Escola Convencional, obriga-se a fornecer material didatico versatil e diferenciado, haja vista a necessidade de seus aprendizes em relacao a essa situacao especifica. Assim, o Material Didatico necessario e obrigatorio a EAD estara apresentado e discutido nesse trabalho, em seus aspectos mais importantes e de maior relevância, para que a finalidade e os objetivos da EAD sejam alcancados e s...
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Entendendo-se um territorio como sendo uma interacao do visitante entre “experiencia, relacao e co-criacao”, a diversidade cultural e criativa assume importante funcao integradora do territorio. Esta pesquisa centra-se na importância da... more
Entendendo-se um territorio como sendo uma interacao do visitante entre “experiencia, relacao e co-criacao”, a diversidade cultural e criativa assume importante funcao integradora do territorio. Esta pesquisa centra-se na importância da co-criacao, criatividade e oportunidades de inovacao em atividades turisticas e culturais, atraves dos eventos, alinhados a preservacao, diferenciacao, valorizacao de experiencias criativas e unicas associadas a sustentabilidade dos territorios turisticos
Much of the mobile heritage, and not only, found in religious space have different values, mainly religious and heritage value, which leads them to serve different audiences. But what distinguishes works of art exhibited in liturgical... more
Much of the mobile heritage, and not only, found in religious space have different values, mainly religious and heritage value, which leads them to serve different audiences. But what distinguishes works of art exhibited in liturgical space and with cultic function, compared to those exhibited in a museum? For a better understanding, the preservation and conservation needs of the works exposed in religious spaces, the tourist enjoyment and the experiences of the public, who are obviously believers and, above all, tourists motivated by the cultural enjoyment of the works of art found there. As is well known, churches, places of worship, in particular hold a vast artistic, historical and cultural heritage which must be taken care of in the same way as the heritage of museums. The awareness of the need to preserve this heritage does not always exist, and the fact that they are goods with a worship function becomes an obstacle that distances the actions to be performed in a church of th...
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Atualmente as tecnologias da informacao e comunicacao (TIC) estao cada vez mais presentes no cotidiano escolar. Sendo assim, a compreensao do papel das TIC no processo de ensino e aprendizagem e crucial para a promocao de uma pratica... more
Atualmente as tecnologias da informacao e comunicacao (TIC) estao cada vez mais presentes no cotidiano escolar. Sendo assim, a compreensao do papel das TIC no processo de ensino e aprendizagem e crucial para a promocao de uma pratica pedagogica que atenda as demandas dos alunos. Este trabalho tem como objetivo identificar como os professores de Ciencias e Biologia de duas escolas publicas do municipio de Pontal do Araguaia-MT fazem uso das TIC em suas aulas. A coleta de dados ocorreu por meio de um questionario que foi respondido por 15 professores. Os professores de Ciencias e Biologia do municipio de Pontal do Araguaia-MT que fazem uso das TIC, as utilizam para reforcarem as praticas educativas ja existentes. Os professores que nao fazem uso das TIC afirmam nao dispor de tempo para aprender manusear esses recursos e utiliza-los em suas aulas. E necessario propor cursos de formacao continuada para que esses professores conhecam as potencialidades dessas ferramentas e construam uma ...
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This chapter intended to perceive the knowledge produced by the scientific community about tourism, innovation, and community tourism. In order to achieve this objective, a search was carried out in the SCOPUS database, which provided... more
This chapter intended to perceive the knowledge produced by the scientific community about tourism, innovation, and community tourism. In order to achieve this objective, a search was carried out in the SCOPUS database, which provided with more than 30 thousand articles from the year 1857 to 2019. It is noticed, however, that the publications that report community tourism and innovation are scarcer, which demonstrates the lack of research within the three areas. It is noticed that for future works it is interesting to insert other sources of research, such as Sicielo and Latinex, and give more visibility to productions in other languages, which gives a broader understand of other publications outside the English-speaking world.
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Purpose With fierce competition in capturing tourists, it is crucial that destinations be prepared to adapt and to refresh their event portfolio. The purpose of this paper is to look into the decision-making process that led to the... more
Purpose With fierce competition in capturing tourists, it is crucial that destinations be prepared to adapt and to refresh their event portfolio. The purpose of this paper is to look into the decision-making process that led to the development of a new festival in a middle-sized city, Tomar, in Portugal. Design/methodology/approach This study analyses the creation process of the Knights Templar Festival, in Tomar, a new event focusing on the Templar history of the city. A retrospective outlook on the evolution of the event is given. Primary data were collected via quantitative survey analysis and semi-structured interviews. The theoretical scope is events and placemaking. Findings The strengths and weaknesses of the region influenced the conception and setting up of this particular event. This awareness is important for cities in meeting the challenges and opportunities that event portfolio diversification calls for. Research limitations/implications This paper helps us to understan...
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SIAM. Series Iberoamericanas de Museología. Año 3, Vol.
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A Organização Mundial do Turismo (OMT) aponta os museus como tendo um papel decisivo na reafirmação das narrativas e significados históricos e culturais a apropriar/a fruir pelos visitantes, pelos turistas, pela comunidade local, por... more
A Organização Mundial do Turismo (OMT) aponta os museus como tendo um papel decisivo na reafirmação das narrativas e significados históricos e culturais a apropriar/a fruir pelos visitantes, pelos turistas, pela comunidade local, por exemplo. Evidenciar as motivações e as experiências dos visitantes, em torno da cultura material exibida no Museu de Arte Sacra e Etnologia de Fátima (MASE, Portugal), é o que se pretende ressaltar neste artigo. O museu exibe objetos de arte sacra e também objetos etnográficos oriundos de África, América e Ásia. A metodologia encontra-se fundamentada no trabalho de campo efetuado no museu, com observação participante, análise de conteúdo ao livro de “opiniões dos visitantes” e aplicação de questionário aos visitantes (nacionais e estrangeiros). Os resultados finais encontrados reforçam, não só a importância da função social do MASE (através do acervo e coleções, essenciais para a divulgação da cultura da região e, particularmente, para a divulgação de o...
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Resumo Ao se examinar o papel da Educação frente ao desenvolvimento do Brasil, em sua classe sócio-econômica desfavorecida-algumas questões devem ser colocadas. Apenas expandir o Sistema Educacional não é resposta para os problemas... more
Resumo Ao se examinar o papel da Educação frente ao desenvolvimento do Brasil, em sua classe sócio-econômica desfavorecida-algumas questões devem ser colocadas. Apenas expandir o Sistema Educacional não é resposta para os problemas brasileiros, pois se ...
The ETNOFOTO project is an experimental research in the domain of gathering photograph information to analyze social and cultural anthropologic models. We are digitizing photography contents into a database to be set on-line and to be... more
The ETNOFOTO project is an experimental research in the domain of gathering photograph information to analyze social and cultural anthropologic models. We are digitizing photography contents into a database to be set on-line and to be used in repository of objects. These digital contents can be seen as technical or pedagogic or historic and can be used in domains like tourism, training and education. 1. Introdução A digitalização de conteúdos é uma componente importante na criação dos recursos digitais on-line. O projecto ETNOFOTO permite descodificar sistemas culturais através de imagens fotográficas criando um repositório de conteúdos digitais que pode servir, entre outras finalidades, para a educação e para a promoção turística. A promoção visual através da fotografia pode-se associar também ao desenvolvimento local e regional com o material fotográfico de família. Todo este conteúdo digitalizado pode ter um alcance didáctico, pedagógico, técnico, evocativo e histórico. Apresenta...