Residents’ perspectives on tourism impacts of Portuguese World Heritage historic centers: Angra do Heroísmo and Évora
The aim of this study is twofold. First, the study analyzes local community perspectives of the importance of the World Heritage Site (WHS) classification of the historic centers of Angra do Heroísmo and Évora. Second, the study analyzes local residents’ perceived tourism impacts on the municipa...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Algarve, ESGHT/CINTURS
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Tourism & Management Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://tmstudies.net/index.php/ectms/article/view/756/1263 |
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| Summary: | The aim of this study is twofold. First, the study analyzes local
community perspectives of the importance of the World Heritage
Site (WHS) classification of the historic centers of Angra do
Heroísmo and Évora. Second, the study analyzes local residents’
perceived tourism impacts on the municipalities of Angra do
Heroísmo and Évora. The methodology comprises quantitative
research based on a self-administered survey applied to
convenience samples of local residents of the two Portuguese
municipalities in 2014. The main results reveal that local residents
have a strongly positive perception of the WHS designation in both
municipalities. With regard to the perceived tourism impacts,
residents from Angra do Heroísmo have a stronger agreement
about the impacts of tourism on their city than the residents of
Évora, except for the negative social and cultural impacts. The
comparison of the mean scores of these impacts across residents
that live near and far from the historic centers reveals that the most
valued and least valued impacts in the three categories of impacts
(economic, social and cultural, and environmental) are common to
all groups of residents. Nevertheless, residents living in or near the
historic center of Angra do Heroísmo have higher means in the
majority of tourism impacts (in all categories), with only one
negative impact to concern the majority of respondents. Among the
residents from Évora, residents living in or near the historic center
have higher means in the majority of economic impacts but lower
means in almost social and cultural impacts. With regard to the
environmental impacts, residents living in or near the historic
center have higher means scores in the positive impacts and lower
means scores in the negative environmental impacts. |
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| ISSN: | 2182-8466 |