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Drawing on the theoretical input provided by literature and tourism studies, especially on the concept of tourist literature (Quinteiro & Baleiro, 2019), this paper aims to focus on the novels Süßer Mord [Sweet Murder] (2015) and Algarve-Rache [Algarve Revenge] (2017), by Rolf Osang, a German author who wrote various guidebooks about Portugal, especially about the Algarve. In fact, the Algarve is also the setting of these novels, which can be read as literary guidebooks. Both the narrator and various characters in the novels convey several travel tips provided by a writer who knows the region very well, as a member of a local community of international residents, and who, in the writing process, bears in mind the specific interests of possible readers, namely (potential) visitors, with whom he shares information on places of interest as well as impressions about the locals, their culture, and tourist practices in the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Budgets are an essential tool for planning and control, performance evaluation, communication, coordination and staff motivation. Despite their importance and wide use in the hotel sector, research into the budgeting practices of hotels located in Portugal is scarce. This study analyses the budgeting practices of hotels in the Algarve. Data collected through a structured questionnaire submitted to financial managers shows that budgets are widely adopted; however, they are mainly produced for the short term. The primary reasons for preparing budgets are performance evaluation, target setting, control and short-term planning. Few hotels use zero-base budgeting and there is also little use of flexible budgeting. Budgets are viewed as one of the main performance indicators. The findings are in line with the conclusions of previous studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper offers a two decades' (1985-2007) perspective of employer enterprises' demography dynamics in the Portuguese region of the Algarve. Departing from the NUTII regional disaggregation, this region's firm demography is further broken down by sector, size and growth intensity, during the analysis of firm creation, employment, high-growth firms, longevity and survival probability. By 2007, only three NUTII regions displayed a rate of firm creation above the national average, with Algarve being the region in the country with the highest rate of firm creation, after the year 2000. Algarve also displays the highest rate of growth of employer enterprises, suffering however from considerable firm turbulence due to its high share of SME. These findings are related to the regional specialization model, as Algarve's firms have been shown to be increasingly concentrated in the services and construction sectors throughout the period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a sector strongly dependent on information as is the case of tourism, the timely knowledge of consumer behaviour enables making well-considered decisions and less uncertainty. Nowadays, the act of searching on the Internet about a particular subject before decision-making is part of the individuals' daily lives. The Google Trends tool provides real time aggregated data on the online individuals' interest based on the carried out search queries on Google. The objective of this paper is to show that Google Trends can provide comparative information about the individuals' interest in relation to Portugal tourism regional areas and in particular, on the tourist destination "Algarve", and also between its competing tourist destinations. The results show that the tool can contribute to the knowledge of the individuals' interests in relation to regional tourist destinations, information considered of great interest for Destination Management Organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Besides receiving large numbers of tourists, the Algarve is also becoming home to growing communities of migrants whose first language is not Portuguese. Besides the so-called "economic migrants" who have arrived from eastern European countries, attracted by the employment opportunities in construction and the service sectors that have resulted from the development of mass tourism, there are also growing numbers of northern European "lifestyle migrants" in search of a better way of life in the sun. The transformations in the ethnoscape of the region due to these tourism-related mobilities have impacted on its semiotic landscape. Notably, English is seemingly everywhere, whilst the languages of the eastern European migrant communities are almost entirely absent. In this paper, I explore how some of the texts that appear in the semiotic landscape can be viewed as nexus points for various circulating discursive practices. Such practices are spatially and temporally embedded in a dialectical relationship with the politics of place and, ultimately, contribute to the discursive construction of the inclusion/exclusion of different social groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The main task of this extended abstract is to discuss the processes of urban transformation and functional specialization through tourism in a certain region. With this purpose the spatial configuration of the municipalities of Albufeira, Loulé and Faro was chosen, as strong points of a touristification dynamic. The Algarve was a peripheral region in the Portuguese context till the 1960's, mainly dedicated to agriculture, fishing and shellfish gathering and some low mechanized industries of natural products transformation. Following the urban and metropolitan input in Lisbon and Oporto, Algarvian cities started an urbanization process not towards industry, but tourism, creating an urban design and infrastructure suitable for leisure and entertainment. Geographically connected to the Spanish Andalucia where the touristic input started before 1965, the Algarve and its waterfronts became a new touristic territory for tourism travelers. This phenomenon involves a social, economic and cultural context marked by the reception of tourists, a region organized according to their needs, an economic subservience and strong dependence on this particular sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The coastal tradition in the Algarve, the most important Portuguese tourism destination, is well known. The region has based its economic activities in maritime and marine resources since ancient times. Nowadays, besides costal tourism, fisheries, aquaculture and even new cutting-edge activities linked with the economic valorisation of marine sciences have an important weight in the region. This article, based on the qualitative results of the Atlantic Area KIMERAA project regional analysis, identifies critical dimensions in the vision of relevant stakeholders for the creation of a regional Sea Cluster. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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