O papel dos Museus nos constructos da experiência global do destino. O caso do Museu da Cerâmica de Caldas da Rainha.

Enquanto actores, desejavelmente interventivos nos Sistemas Turísticos, os Museus, enfrentam desafios de integração dos seus visitantes no Destino em que se inserem. No âmbito desta complexidade e outros contextos aqui não referidos, estes processos de integração do visitante poderão também oscilar entre a integração na temática específica que sustentam, a integração na cultura mais alargada que personificam ou num âmbito ainda mais vasto, poderão contribuir para a integração numa Experiência Global desse mesmo destino. O Museu da Cerâmica investigado, sustenta e incrementa um Imaginário Colectivo assente numa nostalgia cultural que reafirma a cerâmica local como principal veículo da promoção cultural e patrimonial do destino Caldas da Rainha. O presente trabalho perspectiva a possibilidade do Imaginário, em determinados contextos, poder ser equacionado como uma espécie de preconceito cultural que inibe, ou, no mínimo, não contribui para promover experiências culturais mais vastas. No sentido inverso, ganham importância acrescida estratégias a seguir pelos Museus para que as suas funções pedagógicas e emancipadoras sejam mais amplas e interventivas em função de interesses existentes e previamente assumidos pelo Destino.

Participation of portuguese manufacturing industry in global value chains

Portugal’s manufacturing sector has a significant importance both in national income and employment. As has been pointed out by several researchers, the traditional methods of analysis fail to grasp all the dimensions of economic competitiveness. This dissertation is then, at its core, an analysis of Portugal’s manufacturing industry in terms of the latter’s value added to production and impact to employment under the framework of global value chains. The current dissertation seeks to study in which way the Portuguese manufacturing industry, and its respective sectors, has a direct and indirect impact on the creation of value added and employment and how this impact can be measured. For development of this work the input-output approach for calculation of multipliers and the new framework proposed by Timmer et al. (2013) for calculation of GVC income and GVC jobs indicators were used, elaborated on the basis of the WIOD project dataset. Moreover, to illustrate the application of the provided methodology the Portuguese textile industry was used as an example. It was found that the changes in final demand of such sectors as Pulp, Paper, Printing and Publishing; Machinery, Nec and Textiles and Textile Products would have a larger impact on generated value added than other manufacturing sectors. At the same time, employment created by the changes in final demand would be more impacted by such sectors as Food, Beverages and Tobacco; Wood and Products of Wood and Cork and Textiles and Textile Products. In this regard, the number of low-skilled workers in Portugal seems to be more effected by changes in final demand, than those occupied by higher -skilled individuals. Moreover, it was found that the distribution of GVC income and GVC jobs for the Portuguese manufacturing industry shares a similar outlook. However, upon closer inspection of GVC labour distribution by skill levels there seems to exist a general progression in which low-skilled jobs requirements are met by local resources, while the need for higher skilled jobs require a greater “off-shoring” of work The results obtained through calculations of presented multipliers provide a powerful tool for policy makers in strategic planning of development of national economy. Using the provided methodology and obtained results, a government and supranational organizations could define which industry would have the greatest impact for an additional unit of output generated through the economy, and thus define the sectors for further investments.