{"id":795,"date":"2023-04-24T12:03:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T12:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plataformanacionaldeturismo.pt\/island-tourism\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T15:52:23","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T15:52:23","slug":"island-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plataformanacionaldeturismo.pt\/en\/island-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Island Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Coordination<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carlos Santos \u2013 Researcher at CEEApla (Centre of Applied Economics Studies of the Atlantic of the Faculty of Economics and Management of the Universidade dos A\u00e7ores and President of the Sustainable Tourism Observatory of the Azores)<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carlos Costa \u2013 Chair of the PNT Executive Committee<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Guest researchers<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gualter Couto \u2013 Faculty of Economics and Management of the Universidade dos A\u00e7ores<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ana Isabel Moniz \u2013 Faculty of Economics and Management of the Universidade dos A\u00e7ores<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Teresa Medeiros \u2013 Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade dos A\u00e7ores<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Luiz Pinto Machado \u2013 Universidade da Madeira<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ant\u00f3nio Manuel Martins de Almeida \u2013 Universidade da Madeira.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Invited researchers<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carlos Pican\u00e7o \u2013 Commercial and Marketing Director of Futurismo <em>Azores Adventures<\/em>;<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cl\u00e1udia Faias \u2013 Director of the Ciprotur hotel group;<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carolina Mendon\u00e7a \u2013 Coordinator of the Sustainability Structure of the Azores Tourism Destination;<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eug\u00e9nio Neves \u2013 Director-General for Tourism of S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Objectives<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The PNT\u2019s sectoral think tank on island tourism aims to promote discussion on the specific characteristics of tourism on islands, particularly on small islands with fragile ecosystems that are geared towards nature-based and cultural tourism at both national and international levels.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Its members comprise academics and researchers in the field of tourism, as well as officials from central government responsible for implementing sectoral policies on sustainable tourism on islands, and representatives from business groups. The objectives relating to the various aspects of sustainable tourism on islands aim to:<\/p>\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" type=\"1\" start=\"1\">\n<li>Discuss the main challenges associated with sustainability, creativity and innovation in island tourism;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To discuss the issue of accessibility in isolated and peripheral island territories;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To develop policies and strategies for sustainable tourism on small islands.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coordination Carlos Santos \u2013 Researcher at CEEApla (Centre of Applied Economics Studies of the Atlantic of the Faculty of Economics and Management of the Universidade dos A\u00e7ores and President of the Sustainable Tourism Observatory of the Azores) Carlos Costa \u2013 Chair of the PNT Executive Committee Guest researchers Gualter Couto \u2013 Faculty of Economics and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-think-tank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plataformanacionaldeturismo.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plataformanacionaldeturismo.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plataformanacionaldeturismo.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plataformanacionaldeturismo.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plataformanacionaldeturismo.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plataformanacionaldeturismo.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"https:\/\/plataformanacionaldeturismo.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plataformanacionaldeturismo.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plataformanacionaldeturismo.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plataformanacionaldeturismo.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plataformanacionaldeturismo.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}