Год выпуска: 2010 Автор: Ana Isabel Renda,Julio Mendes and Patricia Oom do Valle Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 56 ISBN: 9783838353876
Описание
This work results from the literature review on quality of life and tourism areas and also from an exploratory study among residents, focusing on an emergent rural tourism area, with five small villages, in the municipality of Loule, located in the Algarve, one of the most internationally well-known Portuguese destinations.Exploratory data were processed through a qualitative approach and the results show that residents have consistently positive attitudes towards tourism and the perceived economical, social cultural and environmental impact influence residents'' attitudes towards tourism and tourism development. Additionally residents'' perceived well-being and quality of life seems to be mainly determined by factors not related to tourism phenomenon, although we can recognize some influences on the perception of tourism on this evaluation for some residents groups. This investigation adopts the residents'' point of view in the assessment of their own quality of life, considering,...
