3 resultados para Culture, suicide, and the human condition
em CiencIPCA - Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, Portugal
Resumo:
Residents tend to have high expectations about the benefits of hosting a megaevent. So, it was not surprising that the nomination of Guimares, Portugal, as the 2012 European Capital of Culture (2012 ECOC) had raised great expectations in the local community towards its socioeconomic and cultural benefits. The present research was designed to examine the Guimares residents perceptions on the impacts of hosting the 2012 ECOC approached in two different time schedules, the pre and the postevent, trying to capture the evolution of the residents` evaluation of its impacts. For getting the data, two surveys were applied to Guimares` residents, one in the preevent phase, in 2011, and another in the postevent phase, in 2013. This approach is uncommonly applied to Portugal data and it is even the first time it was done to a Portuguese European Capital of Culture. After a factor analysis, the results of ttests indicate that there were significant differences (p<0.05) between the samples from the pre and post2012 ECOC on two positive impact factors (Community benefits and Residents benefits) and one negative impact factor (Economic, social and environmental costs). Respondents also showed a negative perception of the impacts in all dimensions, except Changes in habits of Guimares residents.
Resumo:
The nomination of Guimares, a small city located in the northwest of Portugal, as European capital of culture (ECOC) in 2012 raised great expectations in the local community towards its socio-economic and cultural benefits. As noted by various authors, namely Kim and Petrick (2005), Kim, Gursoy and Lee (2006) and Gursoy, Chi, Ai and Chen (2011), residents tend to have high expectations about the benefits of hosting a mega-event, although they tend to recognize that some costs will result from it. Therefore, the present research was designed to examine the Guimares residents perceptions on the impacts of the 2012 European capital of culture (2012 ECOC) on the city and the municipality of Guimares before and after the mega-event and the differences found between the two time periods.
Resumo:
In 2012, Guimares hosted the European Capital of Culture (ECOC). An evaluation of this event was needed because public, private, and community funds were involved. This analysis considers tourists as external and independent stakeholders who assessed the cultural activities developed during the event as well as the attributes of the city. The main objectives of the research conducted were to assess the visitors` motivations during the hosting of the Guimares ECOC 2012, their perceptions towards the city and if national and international visitors kept different perceptions of it. For two months, in the summer of 2012, a survey was applied to 390 visitors. The results revealed that hosting the 2012 ECOC was a major contribution towards attracting new visitors to the city (though many of the visitors stayed only for a short period of time). Based on tourists perceptions, the tangible heritage was clearly detached from the set of attributes associated to Guimares, whereas the intangible heritage was less noted. The Portuguese tourists seem to be more prone to value the tangible heritage than the foreign tourists. Overall, Guimares received a very positive evaluation relating to the citys image and, as stated by tourists, visiting it was declared to be highly recommended. Following the obtained empirical results, the need for changing the citys promoted image emerges, which has been too centered on its tangible heritage. In doing so, it is believed that there will be longer overnight stays by visitors.
