Local cultural identity as a tourism development agent

  • Marta Dionísio TECHN&ART - Centro de Tecnologia, Restauro e Valorização das Artes; Instituto Politécnico de Tomar
  • Cláudia Pires da Silva TECHN&ART - Centro de Tecnologia, Restauro e Valorização das Artes; Instituto Politécnico de Tomar
  • Paula Almeida TECHN&ART - Centro de Tecnologia, Restauro e Valorização das Artes; Instituto Politécnico de Tomar
  • Célio Gonçalo Marques TECHN&ART - Centro de Tecnologia, Restauro e Valorização das Artes; Instituto Politécnico de Tomar.
  • João Tomaz Simões TECHN&ART – Centro de Tecnologia, Restauro e Valorização das Artes; Instituto Politécnico de Tomar.
  • Susana Domingos TECHN&ART – Centro de Tecnologia, Restauro e Valorização das Artes; Instituto Politécnico de Tomar
Keywords: Cultural resources, tourism development, local and cultural identity, city of Tomar

Abstract

When it comes to developing and planning a destination, the symbiosis between culture and tourism is inevitably one of the strategies to be taken into account, both for the contribution of territorial innovation that tourist experiences bring, and for the authenticity offered by cultural heritage.

In this sense, the present work identifies and classifies, based on a qualitative analysis of the applied interviews, the cultural resources with greater expression and potential to promote the city of Tomar in an international visitation perspective.

This study will start from an exploratory research based on a systematic literature review, addressing both the main historical landmarks that contributed to the construction of the city's cultural identity, and the strategies of valorisation in the tourism plan, which will be validated with in situ visits.

It is understood that the different uses of culture as a factor of tourism development are based on the construction of the identity of a place, being the object of study the city of Tomar.

The different local agents are, therefore, responsible for the preservation of this local cultural identity, being cultural manifestations a way of promoting tourism activities, insofar as they must aim at safeguarding and preserving the knowledge that generates cultural identity.

This study will help to understand how the local culture of the city of Tomar, based on its own local identity, can influence, and allow the development of tourism activity

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Published
2024-06-26
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Dionísio, M., da Silva, C. P., Almeida, P., Marques, C. G., Simões, J. T., & Domingos, S. (2024, June 26). Local cultural identity as a tourism development agent. Journal of Tourism and Heritage Research, 7(3), 81-88. Retrieved from http://jthr.es/index.php/journal/article/view/592
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Vol 7 No 3 (2024): Journal of Tourism and Heritage Research
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