A project that focus in collaborative processes, in which the implementation of activities by the research partners is a key exercise.
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Creative Tourism as an Inductor of Co-Creation Experiences: The Creatour Project in the Algarve
Sónia Moreira Cabeça (Research Centre for Tourism, Sustainability, and Well-Being (CinTurs), University of Algarve, Portugal), Alexandra R. Gonçalves (School of Management, Hospitality and Tourism (ESGHT) and Research Centre for Tourism, Sustainability, and Well-Being (CinTurs), University of Algarve, Portugal), João Filipe Marques (Faculty of Economics and Research Centre for Tourism, Sustainability, and Well-Being (CinTurs), University of Algarve, Portugal), and Mirian Tavares (Faculty of Human and Social Sciences and Research Centre in Arts and Communication (CIAC), University of Algarve, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3156-3.ch013
Abstract
Creative tourism is characterized by the opportunity that gives visitors to develop their creativity through active participation in learning experiences that are characteristic of their destination. That implies a relationship between visitors and residents in which the exchange of knowledge is central. Being an interactive process, the learning and doing of a creative tourism activity is an exercise of self-affirmation that expresses the creative potential of each participant. That is to say, creative tourism experiences are co-created by tourists and their hosts. Tourists and residents are co-designers in creative tourism, as the CREATOUR experiences prove. In this chapter, the authors intend to present the project activities in the Algarve. After contextualizing co-creation within the creative processes, their research is centred on the creative experiences and discusses the opportunities resulting from co-created activities. They also look at the survey applied to the participants in the experiences to better understand their feelings towards co-creation and creative processes.