Creative Tourism and Sustainable Territories

Paula Remoaldo is Full Professor of Geography at Department of Geography and at Landscape, Heritage and Territory Laboratory (Lab2PT), University of Minho, Portugal. She researches areas of ‪Geography of Tourism‬, ‪Regional and Local Development‬ and Health Geography.‬ She is author and editor of numerous books and of papers in high impact factor Journals.Juliana Alves, Post Doc Degree, is Researcher at the Landscape, Heritage and Territory Laboratory (Lab2PT), University of Minho, Portugal. She researches in the areas of Sustainable Tourism Management, Creative Tourism, Geography, and Local and Regional Development.Vítor Ribeiro is Assistant Professor at Department of Geography and Researcher at the Landscape, Heritage and Territory Laboratory (Lab2PT), University of Minho, Portugal. He researches in the areas of Transport Geography, Geographic Information Systems, Tourism and Regional and Local Development, Crime Geography and Geographical Education.

• Introduction. Introduction; Paula Remoaldo, Juliana Alves, and Vítor RibeiroChapter 1. Definition and evolution of creative tourism: How can it contribute to the sustainability of territories?; Paula Remoaldo and José Cadima Ribeiro Chapter 2. Creative tourism: What is the role of urban and rural territories?; Paula Remoaldo and Daniela Angelina Jelinčić Chapter 3. The contribution of festivals to creative tourism and territorial development: Are small-scale festivals a useful contribution?; Vítor Ribeiro, Juliana Araújo Alves, and Paula Remoaldo Chapter 4. Some examples of best practices in creative tourism: How do entrepreneurs’ fit in the market and possible clusters?; Elaine Borges Scalabrini and Juliana Araújo Alves Chapter 5. Motivations and profile of the creative tourist: What do they want to experience?; Juliana Araújo Alves and Mansour Ghanian Chapter 6. Methods and techniques in creative tourism: Why technologies are so relevant to achieve creativity?; Vítor Ribeiro Chapter 7. Challenges and dilemmas of creative tourism in the 21st century: How can we preserve it from the massive offer?; Paula Remoaldo, Vítor Ribeiro, Juliana Alves, Elaine Scalabrini, and Hélder Lopes