Universitat de Girona
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The main aim is to define the concept of religious tourism in order to understand the complex nature of this phenomenon. Firstly, we analyze the concept of sacred, and especially the relationship with sacred spaces as main ...
This doctoral thesis will try to identify all structural elements that form the tourist landscape of the Valley of Camprodon, primarily from the tension between tradition/modernity vectors and between the nodes/semiologic ...
The purpose of this research is to present a methodology for Social Innovation to communities in conflict (characterized by poverty, but with great natural and cultural wealth); for which it is proposed to Rural Community ...
Food tourism is a type of tourism that over recent years has been achieving a greater interest by academics and tourism professionals, and evidently also as a tourist motivation. The framework of the thesis is based on ...
Aquesta recerca ha tingut com a objectiu investigar els sentits i significats dels Jocs Olímpics Rio 2016. Per això, s’ha realitzat un estudi de cas amb diferents grups d’anàlisi seleccionats per a la recerca. D’entre els ...
Tourists are crossing borders naturally when consuming an area. Therefore, cross-border tourism studies are gaining relevance. A qualitative analysis showed the lack of research on cross-border tourism from the demand side. ...
La asistencia sanitaria es uno de los temas primordiales del siglo XXI. Los problemas relacionados con la atención médica contemporánea han generado una creciente demanda de servicios de pacientes extranjeros. En el marco ...
In this thesis carried through the Doctorate Programm about Tourism from the University of Girona, we decided to investigate whether the tourism system could be considered as a factor in local development in medium-sized ...
People with disabilities face a series of constraints when visiting a tourism destination. These constraints have a disproportionate effect on their behaviour compared to those without disabilities. The first article of ...
The aim is to determine how the media environment affects the way in which live performance is received, distributed, and participated in. Based particularly on media and cultural convergence, the study analyses contemporary ...
This dissertation aims to understand the food consuming behaviours of international tourists in their long-haul travel. This thesis is presented as a compendium of publications, which the first one intents to build a new ...
This thesis adopts Habermas’s theory of communicative action to explore how consensus-oriented actions contribute to knowledge creation and collective decision-making in collaborative governance processes. Through studying ...
Purpose: To prove the incidence of online reputation in the occupation and profitability of hotels in Latin America. Methodology: Based on the information provided by the Hotel Chain GHL, financial and online reputation ...
This doctoral thesis aims to contribute to the development of an emerging theory of community-based tourism (CBT), defining it as community-driven governance (CDG) and as social entrepreneurship, both analyzed as dimensions ...
The identification of cases that allow to identify if the relationship between international cooperation and tourism can be generator of good practices, in order to design a methodological tool to analyse and evaluate ...
There has always been a controversy in relevant studies about the role of the museum in the tourism industry, particularly in cultural tourism has always remained controversial in relevant studies. The studies which have ...
This is an investigation that wants to study about the perspective of service quality for young audiences at a cultural place such as museum. These types of projects allow us to obtain direct feedback from children as young ...
This doctoral thesis explores the brand development process of regional destinations in depth, focusing on the supply-side perspective and the concept of brand identity, as well as the perceptions of stakeholders involved ...
The purpose pursued with this study is that future graduates develop the skills and professional abilities that the sector requires. Human capital is considered as a key element in the tourism system. It reveals, however, ...
This thesis links the limits of tourism growth and social exchange theory (SET) through tourism impacts perceptions of residents. SET has been the most widely used theory to explain the perceptions by residents of tourism ...
