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- Idea laboratories: providing tools for creative tourism agentsPublication . Cabeça, Sónia Moreira; Gonçalves, Alexandra; Marques, João Filipe; Tavares, MirianIn Portugal, the project CREATOUR - Creative Tourism Destination Development in Small Cities and Rural Areas - has been working with a range of cultural/creative organizations (pilots) that are implementing new creative tourism experiences in the Portuguese territory. To improve their offers, CREATOUR carried out, between April 2017 and May 2019, a series of Idea Laboratories as a means to support content development, readjust and discuss pilot initiatives, and exchange experience and knowledge. These IdeaLabs focused on collaborative processes that accompanied all stages of the development of a creative tourism activity, from ideation to prototyping. One of the major needs was to establish a series of instruments to make a critical assessment of the laboratories' outcomes, to better understand if this type of collaborative process can be helpful in the designing of cultural tourism activities. This paper intends to disclosure the methodology used and the instruments created to evaluate the eficiency of the IdeaLabs and to present the results of such evaluation in a qualitative and comprehensive approach. By creating a methodology and a series of instruments, the evaluation process assessed the impacts of the IdeaLabs in the participants' ideas and strategies, and allowed us to better understand the creative and cultural organization's needs when implementing creative tourism experiences.
- Valorizar o interior AlgarvioPublication . Cabeça, Sónia Moreira; Gonçalves, Alexandra; Marques, João Filipe; Tavares, MirianO Turismo Criativo, através do recurso às características específicas dos territórios (recursos naturais, normas culturais, especificidades geográficas) e do estímulo ao papel ativo das suas comunidades, pode vir a ser um caminho seguro para o desenvolvimento local. Trabalhando diretamente com 40 entidades que, de norte a sul do país, desenvolvem experiências de turismo criativo em territórios rurais e de baixa densidade, o Projeto CREATOUR - Desenvolver Destinos de Turismo Criativo em Cidades de Pequena Dimensão e Áreas Rurais - visa contribuir para o desenvolvimento económico sustentado das regiões. No Algarve, região cujo turismo é caraterizado pelo produto «sol e mar», um dos principais objetivos das iniciativas associadas ao CREATOUR é, precisamente, a valorização do interior enquanto «sítio onde vale a pena ir».