PUBLICAÇÃO INTERNACIONAL
A investigadora do CIAC, Mirian Tavares, integra publicação sobre turismo sustentável, no âmbito do Projeto Creatour, com o artigo “Creative Tourism as an Inductor of Co-Creation Experiences: The Creatour Project in the Algarve”. Sónia Cabeça (CinTurs), Alexandra Gonçalves (CinTurs) e João Marques (CinTurs) são também autores da publicação.
Este artigo faz parte de uma edição especial da Revista Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050), dedicado a “Tourism, Culture, and Heritage“, organizado pela investigadora Ana Rodrigues Gonçalves, coordenadora do Projeto CREATOUR na Universidade do Algarve.
O projeto CREATOUR foca o desenvolvimento de experiências na região do Algarve, um dos principais destinos de viagem em Portugal. Creative Tourism oferece aos visitantes a oportunidade de desenvolver a sua criatividade através da participação ativa em experiências características da região, fomentando a troca de conhecimento e a cooperação entre os visitantes e os residentes. O capítulo apresenta as atividades do projeto, a sua investigação centrada nas experiências criativas e discute os resultados das atividades cocriadas.
ABSTRACT:
Creative tourism is characterized by the opportunity that gives visitors to develop their creativity through active participation in learning experiences that are characteristic of their destination. That implies a relationship between visitors and residents in which the exchange of knowledge is central. Being an interactive process, the learning and doing of a creative tourism activity is an exercise of self-affirmation that expresses the creative potential of each participant. That is to say, creative tourism experiences are co-created by tourists and their hosts. Tourists and residents are co-designers in creative tourism, as the CREATOUR experiences prove. In this chapter, the authors intend to present the project activities in the Algarve. After contextualizing co-creation within the creative processes, their research is centred on the creative experiences and discusses the opportunities resulting from co-created activities. They also look at the survey applied to the participants in the experiences to better understand their feelings.
