Instituto Superior Dom Afonso III

This chapter investigates the traits in tourists’ experiences: senses, emotions and memories. Senses (touch, smell, hearing, taste and sight) and memories are narrated and reconstructed beyond the cognitive, and our aim is to depict the social process. Mental travel time, tracks, features and even sensory modalities enact the memory, merging experiences lived in the environment with their inner livelihood. We propose to analyse the narratives and the photos posted on Algarve Regional Tourism Board—the RTA blog to understand how the Algarve residents who participated in this forum portray the Algarve as a tourist destination, whose image is ingrained in their memories. The interpretation of the results emphasizes the importance of senses, emotions and memories in defining a tourism destination. The results suggest that Algarve has a lot of emotions to offer: the photos posted appeal to sensorial experiences, whereas the nostalgic discourse about the Algarve’s history and the feelings of tourists at the end of the holidays reinforce positive memories able to retain tourists for ages. Strategic implications are discussed.

O uso de feedback em sala de aula pode promover a qualidade das relações professor-aluno e o envolvimento académico e desempenho dos alunos,apesar de nem sempre os professores o usarem da melhor forma. Neste artigo descreve-se o desenvolvimento e a avaliação de uma oficina projetada para melhorar os conhecimentos e as capacidades dos professores no uso deestratégias de feedback e a valorização destas. Doze professores participaram na oficina. Relatos e reflexões dos professores revelam que aparticipação na oficina potenciou maior sensibilização e uso mais adequado de estratégias de feedback. Uma oficina de longa duração, que integre objetivos específicos respeitantes a estratégias de feedback e sessões reflexivas intercaladas com trabalho de aplicação em sala de aula, pode promover o envolvimento, os conhecimentos e as competências dos participantes no uso dessas estratégias. Pode ainda resultar num maior envolvimento e aprendizagem por parte dos alunos desses professores. Palavras-chave: Formação de professores; Feedback do professor; Estratégias e efeitos do feedback; Oficina

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Purpose – This paper aims to explore the phenomenon of online vacation rentals (OVRs) (a new source of e-business travel growth) and how the concept of sense of place is presented by tourists' online reviews. Design/methodology/approach – The initial assumption for this exploratory study is that OVRs bring both material and intangible advantages to the individual consumer and to the community of homeowners. Using a qualitative approach, within the conceptual framework of a sense of place, multidimensional meanings presented by tourists' online reviews of their travel experience and home rentals were explored. Findings – The findings point to a sense of place constructed through affordances of place, home and a functional sense of place. They seem to indicate that these testimonials come from a close-knit virtual community; although the site is open to all, it is primarily used by British-to-British. The data reveal neither any salient expression of social interaction between these tourists and the local community nor any references to the cultural context, thus pointing to the dimensions of security and familiarity and to the absence of any travelling-to-learn motivation. Research limitations/implications – It remains unclear whether sense of place, as defined here, is the outcome of the limitations induced by the channel and textual genre. Future research on this virtual community, via interviews and questionnaires, could clarify this question. Originality/value – The analysis of this new form of tourism and the innovative design of this research, based on textual analysis of free elicited data, are the main contributions of this paper.