Papers by Antonia Correia
Public Health Nutrition
Objective:This study seeks to empirically investigate how the changing eating habits affect healt... more Objective:This study seeks to empirically investigate how the changing eating habits affect health habits within three countries with entirely different cultures and diets to understand to what extent the pandemic may be responsible for these changes.Design:Specifically, a questionnaire was conducted in China, Portugal and Turkey in early 2021. A series of statistical analyses were performed to identify how changes in individuals’ eating habits have influenced their diets, considering the pandemic context and the varying cultural contexts where this research was performed.Setting:A structured questionnaire form was developed and uploaded to an online platform with unique links for automatic distribution to respondents in each country. Data for the main survey were gathered between 3 January and 1 February 2021.Participants:Using snowball sampling, the authors leveraged their social networks by asking friends and colleagues to distribute the survey to potentially interested individua...
This article presents an empirical study of tourist segmentation based on motivations. The presen... more This article presents an empirical study of tourist segmentation based on motivations. The present study, exploratory by nature, aims to provide a deeper insight into profiles of Portuguese tourists traveling to Latin American and African destinations. The research was conducted with 1,097 tourists traveling on Air Luxor to long-haul destinations, by means of factor-cluster analysis, followed by a discriminant and a homals analysis. Three market segments were found: adventure, leisure, and social tourism. The research reveals that each of these segments presents a different profile in terms of motivations and in terms of vacation patterns. However, in terms of sociodemographic characteristics, the differences are not so evident. The managerial implications of these findings are highlighted.
Tourism has experienced different levels of development in the different regions of Portugal. To ... more Tourism has experienced different levels of development in the different regions of Portugal. To frame this development, several panel data models were estimated. The main objective is to explain the evolution of overnight stays by nationality in each region. Secondary data from 2000 to 2010 was used. The analysis includes the main tourism markets, such as the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland, France and Spain. Tourism literature suggests that, among others, the main determinants of tourism demand are Income (GDP), population, tourist s income by place of residence, households’ consumption, unemployment rate, inflation rate, compensation of employees, comparative prices and households’ investment rate. It is observed that, although significant, the explanatory power of these variables varies according to the origin and the destination region considered.
International Journal of Tourism Research
Journal of China Tourism Research
Yield management introduces new indicators to improve the profitability of a business. In the cas... more Yield management introduces new indicators to improve the profitability of a business. In the case of tourism, Dwyer et al. (2009) introduce yield management to measure the impact of tourism at a destination, with the yield management indicators: average stay and average spending. These indicators are considered critical to an understanding of the potential of tourism at a destination. Therefore, this research aims to examine the determinants that most influence tourists' length of stay. The duration of tourists' stay was measured by the number of nights at the destination and analyzed with a Poisson regression model. The model was tested with a database of 847 observations obtained from a survey among tourists visiting Macau. Results suggest that those who are repeaters, travel in larger groups and spend less tend to stay longer. In terms of practical implications, there are several destinations attributes that authorities should pay more attention to improve the standard of facilities and services and in order to maximize the length of stay.
International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research
Regarding lake tourism, there is a lack of research about the characteristics and dimensions and ... more Regarding lake tourism, there is a lack of research about the characteristics and dimensions and also about the identification of attributes involved in the formation of lakedestination image (LDI). The goal is to explore more thoroughly lake tourism based on the Alqueva Lake as an emerging LDA located in the south of Portugal and, simultaneously, to assess the applicability of image attributes in this study site. Design: The perceptions of stakeholders professionally involved with this type of destination were examined through seventeen semi-structured interviews content-analysis carried out with various stakeholders. This study incorporates two approaches: an attribute-based approach (textual data), but also a photo-based approach (visual data), specifically with photographs of the Alqueva Lake. Findings: Items were generated in an emerging destination which contributes to strengthen the concept, characteristics, and dimensions lake tourism image and enrich a theory-building in regard to this recent field of research. The findings also demonstrate the importance of employing various techniques in obtaining image attributes as a first step in analysing images, particularly in the case of unexplored destinations. The results also confirmed that, despite the fact that image attributes are universally important, other attributes are only important for specific types of tourism. Original/Value: Lake tourism and LDAs have been particularly absent from DI studies over forty five years of research. This is a very recent sub-field of tourism studies, which justifies its investigation on a theoretical as well on a practical management level.
Tourism Economics
Previous literature has focused on luxury tourism or luxury shopping, revealing that luxury-drive... more Previous literature has focused on luxury tourism or luxury shopping, revealing that luxury-driven attitudes comprised unveiled reasons such as materialism, a desire for social status and the need to conform with others. Different outlets play different roles in the enactment of shopping attitudes, but even this has been scarcely researched within the context of tourism. This research combines these three areas of research in order to assess how materialism, the desire for status or to conform with others enact tourists’ intentions of buying luxuries while on holiday, within different outlets. A sample of 314 tourists in Hong Kong was used to test eight hypotheses, by means of an ordered probit model. The study’s findings enlighten the social nature of luxury tourists’ shopping behaviours, a nature that depends not only on what they buy but also largely on where they buy.
Advances in Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research, 2015
Tourism Management, 2016
The study answers the call for research about shopping behaviour on street markets in a tourist c... more The study answers the call for research about shopping behaviour on street markets in a tourist context. The study offers a comparative analysis between Portugal and Turkey. The model considers the influence of status consciousness and moral values. Street markets act as an attraction; nevertheless, more proactive actions should be taken. The study offers a different perspective on such behaviours to revive the nature of shopping experiences.
Recent studies about the relation between heritage and tourism have
consistently signaled the exi... more Recent studies about the relation between heritage and tourism have
consistently signaled the existence of fractures between the cultural
reality of tourism destinations and the cognitive and emotional
experience of contemporary visitors. On the other hand, the study
of the relations between tourism and literature and the recent
valorization of storytelling in tourism promotion have both pointed
out the importance of different types of discourses in the constitution
of tourism spaces and the shaping of visitors’ expectations and
experiences. When the desire for authenticity expressed by cultural
tourists is also taken into account, the existence of inconsistencies
between the cultural realities of destinations, existing discourses
and the expectations and perceptions of tourists becomes apparent.
Adapting, in an innovative approach, the Gap Model of Service
Quality, this paper intends to present a research framework capable
of enlightening existing cultural inconsistencies considering the
discourses involved in the promotion and experience of tourism
destinations. The framework will be applied in an exploratory
investigation of the role of José Saramago’s Baltasar and Blimunda in
the tourism promotion of Mafra and Lisbon, Portugal, with the aim of
developing a conceptual model capable of describing inconsistencies
in the promotion and experience of cultural destinations and
facilitating the development of adequate mediation proposals
Lake-destination areas are highly favoured places for tourists due to
their aquatic environment a... more Lake-destination areas are highly favoured places for tourists due to
their aquatic environment as well as areas’ rich surrounding regions.
Existing literature on marketing lake-destination marketing lacks
insights to identify the main image attributes driving visitors and
understanding the lake tourism concept. The present study examines
textual and pictorial data to generate image variables about Alqueva
Lake, Portugal, the largest manmade lake in Europe. Results provide
insights to characterize the potential of lake-destinations and to
develop a final list of variables specifically related to this destination
type. The aim is also to help those involved in marketing the Alqueva
Lake as a destination to identify and propose an adequate strategy.
Journal of Destination Marketing & Management, 2015
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Papers by Antonia Correia
consistently signaled the existence of fractures between the cultural
reality of tourism destinations and the cognitive and emotional
experience of contemporary visitors. On the other hand, the study
of the relations between tourism and literature and the recent
valorization of storytelling in tourism promotion have both pointed
out the importance of different types of discourses in the constitution
of tourism spaces and the shaping of visitors’ expectations and
experiences. When the desire for authenticity expressed by cultural
tourists is also taken into account, the existence of inconsistencies
between the cultural realities of destinations, existing discourses
and the expectations and perceptions of tourists becomes apparent.
Adapting, in an innovative approach, the Gap Model of Service
Quality, this paper intends to present a research framework capable
of enlightening existing cultural inconsistencies considering the
discourses involved in the promotion and experience of tourism
destinations. The framework will be applied in an exploratory
investigation of the role of José Saramago’s Baltasar and Blimunda in
the tourism promotion of Mafra and Lisbon, Portugal, with the aim of
developing a conceptual model capable of describing inconsistencies
in the promotion and experience of cultural destinations and
facilitating the development of adequate mediation proposals
their aquatic environment as well as areas’ rich surrounding regions.
Existing literature on marketing lake-destination marketing lacks
insights to identify the main image attributes driving visitors and
understanding the lake tourism concept. The present study examines
textual and pictorial data to generate image variables about Alqueva
Lake, Portugal, the largest manmade lake in Europe. Results provide
insights to characterize the potential of lake-destinations and to
develop a final list of variables specifically related to this destination
type. The aim is also to help those involved in marketing the Alqueva
Lake as a destination to identify and propose an adequate strategy.
consistently signaled the existence of fractures between the cultural
reality of tourism destinations and the cognitive and emotional
experience of contemporary visitors. On the other hand, the study
of the relations between tourism and literature and the recent
valorization of storytelling in tourism promotion have both pointed
out the importance of different types of discourses in the constitution
of tourism spaces and the shaping of visitors’ expectations and
experiences. When the desire for authenticity expressed by cultural
tourists is also taken into account, the existence of inconsistencies
between the cultural realities of destinations, existing discourses
and the expectations and perceptions of tourists becomes apparent.
Adapting, in an innovative approach, the Gap Model of Service
Quality, this paper intends to present a research framework capable
of enlightening existing cultural inconsistencies considering the
discourses involved in the promotion and experience of tourism
destinations. The framework will be applied in an exploratory
investigation of the role of José Saramago’s Baltasar and Blimunda in
the tourism promotion of Mafra and Lisbon, Portugal, with the aim of
developing a conceptual model capable of describing inconsistencies
in the promotion and experience of cultural destinations and
facilitating the development of adequate mediation proposals
their aquatic environment as well as areas’ rich surrounding regions.
Existing literature on marketing lake-destination marketing lacks
insights to identify the main image attributes driving visitors and
understanding the lake tourism concept. The present study examines
textual and pictorial data to generate image variables about Alqueva
Lake, Portugal, the largest manmade lake in Europe. Results provide
insights to characterize the potential of lake-destinations and to
develop a final list of variables specifically related to this destination
type. The aim is also to help those involved in marketing the Alqueva
Lake as a destination to identify and propose an adequate strategy.