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Para além da vida quotidiana. Amor e sexualidade em contexto turístico: resultados preliminares de uma pesquisa exploratória no Algarve (Portugal)
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This artide explores the idea according to which the concept of liminality, concretely liminoides situations', can be used to analyse and explain the behaviours and attitudes towards romance and non-commercialino-mploratoly sexual relationships occurring in tourism context. In a broad sense, the research problem was: which are the patterns of romantic and sexual behaviour in 'sun and beach' destination? We intended to study behavioural patterns, the attitudes towards sexuality and expressions of intimacy in a contemporary (hyper) tourist setting: the Algarve southern (Portugal). The data were collected using a questionnaire in a sample (stratified by country of residence) of 1015 tourists visiting the Algarve in the summers of 2014 and 2015. The results are preliminary, in a descriptive and impressionistic analysis of an ongoing whose goals were precisely to produce empirical and theoretical evidence about the relationship between tourism and human sexuality, out of the "sex tourism' paradigm. The findings show, on the one hand, the relationship between the holidays and the availability for romance and sex and, on the other hand, a strong erotic and sexual potential of the tourism destination, even for married tourists.