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- The foundation of literary periodicals in the third quarter of the nineteenth century: literature promotion or a political and educational agenda?Publication . Baleiro, Rita; Ribeiro, F.P.The article presents 8 first-editorials published in Portuguese literary periodicals (1855-1865). The research explores the aims of the publications established during a Portuguese literary controversy - Questao Coimbra. By applying detailed text analysis, it addresses the following: a) editorial orientations; b) relationship fostered with the audience(s); c) target-audience(s)? Analysis points to strong educational concerns, mirroring the socio-historic context that placed great emphasis on the promotion of public education, when over 70% of the population was illiterate and in some cases to tightening the links with Brazil.
- “Uma revolução democrática é sempre uma revolução inacabada” - or – “A democratic revolution must always remain unfinished” Commemorating the Portuguese 1974 revolution in newspaper opinion textsPublication . Ribeiro, Filipa PerdigãoThis article analyses the discursive construction of collective memories and the function of commemorative events for national identity. It focuses on how the 30th anniversary of the Portuguese 1974 revolution was portrayed in the government’s Programme of Action issued for the 2004 commemorations and in forty-three newspaper opinion articles also published in 2004. The 1974 revolution ended a 48-year right-wing dictatorship and has shaped subsequent historical events since the 1970s. When the Programme of Action changed the 1974 slogan ‘April is revolution’ into ‘April is evolution’, the written press responded by conducting a debate on this reframing. Using the Discourse-Historical Approach in CDA as the analytical framework, this paper highlights the discursive strategies on which the government’s manifesto was built and explores the opinion articles’ ongoing political and ideological tensions over the revolution, its commemorations, and how it paved the way into Europe, by describing the main macro-discursive strategies and raising issues regarding the (mis)representation of social actors and social action.
- Dissemination report on preliminary findings of the T-rELMA research project july 2023Publication . Torkington, Kate; Ribeiro, Filipa Perdigão; Rebelo, Sandra; Conceição, SusanaThis report follows the seminar on Algarve Tourism: Sustainability, Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship, jointly organised by the T-rELMA and IMPACTUR Algarve research project teams at the School of Management, Hospitality &Tourism, University of the Algarve, on 22June 2023.
- Exploring user-generated content for improving destination knowledge: the case of two world heritage citiesPublication . António, Nuno; Correia, Marisol B.; Ribeiro, Filipa PerdigãoThis study explores twoWorld Heritage Sites (WHS) as tourism destinations by applying several uncommon techniques in these settings: Smart Tourism Analytics, namely Text mining, Sentiment Analysis, and Market Basket Analysis, to highlight patterns according to attraction, nationality, and repeated visits. Salamanca (Spain) and Coimbra (Portugal) are analyzed and compared based on 8,638 online travel reviews (OTR), from TripAdvisor (2017–2018). Findings show that WHS reputation does not seem to be relevant to visitors-reviewers. Additionally, keyword extraction reveals that the reviews do not di er from language to language or from city to city, and it was also possible to identify several keywords related to history and heritage; in particular, architectural styles, names of kings, and places. The study identifies topics that could be used by destination management organizations to promote these cities, highlights the advantages of applying a data science approach, and confirms the rich information value of OTRs as a tool to (re)position the destination according to smart tourism design tenets.
- ‘A true feeling of authentic portuguese golf'? The discursive construction of the Algarve region in portuguese golf websitesPublication . Pereira, Rosária; Ribeiro, Filipa Perdigão; Torkington, Kate; Dias, Joana AfonsoIn an increasingly competitive global marketplace, the need for golf destinations to differentiate themselves from competitors has become more critical than ever. This paper raises questions about the promotional strategies employed by the golf sector in the Algarve, focusing on internet communication strategies, since this medium has become the biggest driving force towards the commoditisation of all aspects of the tourism experience. By offering a complementary perspective to the field of (critical) tourism studies, and drawing on a qualitative, multi-modal discourse analysis, this work-in-progress looks at the particular ways that representations and images presented on the Algarve golf websites constitute and frame identities (of people and places) and socio-spatial relationships. This paper analyses a corpus of 45 texts collected from official websites of the 40 Algarve golf courses and from five entities which promote the Algarve as a golf destination, along with the golf images that are displayed alongside them. Findings point to salient discursive and visual representations of a global setting enjoyed by the global elite. Whereas the courses‟ positioning in relation to their regional competitors draws on similar discursive strategies which reflect those used in tourism advertising discourses in general – e.g. reiteration of explicit comparisons, superlatives and hyperbolic statements -, representations of local emplacedness are not salient; in some cases local place seems to have been almost intentionally suppressed.
- O domínio de línguas estrangeiras no turismo e hotelariaPublication . Torkington, Kate; Perdigão, F.Este artigo apresenta de forma sumária os resultados obtidos a partir de um "Estudo Preliminar de Análise de Necessidades na área de prendizagem e aplicação de Línguas Estrangeiras para o Turismo" desenvolvido entre Abril e Junho de 2001. Os resultados obtiveram-se através da aplicaçao de inquéritos por questionário dirigidos, essencialmente, aos profissionais com formação no ensino superior a desenvolver a sua actividade nos sectores do turismo e hotelaria.
- Faro National Capital of Culture (FCNC 2005) and Tourism - reflections on the profile of tourists who attended the eventsPublication . Ferreira, Ana Maria; Martins, Ana Isabel; Gonçalves, A. R.; Perdigão, F.; Torkington, Kate; Pereira, Luis Nobre; Martins, Paula VenturaThis paper presents and reflects on some of the results obtained from a study conducted 0ver a 6 month period. The study focused on the tourists who visited the Faro National Capital of Culture. Between March and December 2005, a total of 154 events and attractions (with a total of 2513 sessions) including art exhibitions theatre, concerts, dance and cinema, took place in Faro and other towns throughout the Algarvian region, Although FCNC 2005 was not specifically project as a tourist related event, the fact that the Algarve is the most important tourist region of Portugal together with the concentration of most of the session over the summer months, which constitute the tourism high season, meant that many of events were well attended by tourist.
- Conflicting discursive representations of overtourism in Lisbon in the Portuguese digital pressPublication . Ribeiro, Filipa Perdigão; Torkington, KatePurposeThis study aims to explore the ways in which Portuguese online news reports and opinion studies have framed the discussion about overtourism in Lisbon and its impacts on the city and its inhabitants. Design/methodology/approachDrawing on critical discourse analysis applied to media texts, this paper discusses the discursive representations of overtourism by focusing on how an emerging new discourse which constructs tourism as problematic began to challenge the established discourse - in which tourism is perceived as beneficial. FindingsAs a consequence, and to maintain the status quo, many media texts deploy strong legitimating strategies focusing on the benefits of tourism growth. These are juxtaposed with de-legitimating strategies which serve to deny problems of overtourism. Findings highlight the role the media play in shaping tourism discursively and uncover the complexities of discourses on the effects of (over)tourism and the ways in which they are constructed, disseminated and discussed. Social implicationsThis research is particularly relevant when newspaper opinion articles from 2021 voice the Portuguese Government's concern in bringing back to Portugal the pre-pandemic tourist numbers as soon as possible. Originality/valueThis study attempts to reveal the conflicting interests and imbalances of power among different tourism stakeholders by taking a qualitative, critical approach to the analysis of media discourse as a social practice within the broader socio-political context. This study argues that from an analytical-methodological perspective, media discourse is an optimum research site to critically explore how conflicting interests are positioned in the mass media and how this shapes public opinion.
- Whose right to the city? An analysis of the mediatized politics of place surrounding alojamento local issues in Lisbon and PortoPublication . Torkington, Kate; Ribeiro, Filipa PerdigãoIn view of the proliferation of alojamento local (short-term vacation rentals) in the major Portuguese cities of Lisbon and Porto, along with the recent transformation of the historic city centre neighbourhoods, this study explores the mediatized politics of place by analysing data sets resulting from different, but interconnected, discursive practices. At the level of governance, we examine how legislation has enabled and facilitated this transformation. We then explore the media coverage of the issues surrounding these recent changes. Finally, we focus on individual and collective stakeholder voices by analysing the various rights claims and arguments found in social media communication channels. Framing our analysis initially in Lefebvre’s concept of ‘the right to the city’, often invoked as an argument for the promotion of justice, inclusion and sustainability in the face of urbanisation policies, we argue that a ‘rights in the city’ approach is better suited to gaining insight into the multiple tensions and conflicts brought about through the interlinking processes of regeneration, gentrification and touristification that affect neighbourhoods with high proportions of short-term rental accommodation, and conclude that there are many rights claimants within a seemingly unified group of stakeholders, invoking rights claims which are sometimes overlapping, but often conflicting.
- Relatório de divulgação dos resultados preliminares do projeto de investigação T-rELMA julho 2023Publication . Torkington, Kate; Ribeiro, Filipa Perdigão; Rebelo, Sandra; Conceição, SusanaT-rELMA é um projeto exploratório, com a duração de 18 meses, iniciado em janeiro de 2022. É financiado pela Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) e conta com uma equipa de investigação internacional composta por nove investigadores. Este relatório surge na sequência do seminário Turismo no Algarve: Sustentabilidade, Competitividade e Empreendedorismo, organizado conjuntamente pelas equipas dos projetos de investigação T-rELMA e IMPACTUR Algarve, na Escola Superior de Gestão, Hotelaria e Turismo da Universidade do Algarve, no dia 22 de junho de 2023.