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- (Re)futuring Tourism Businesses: A Framework for a Sustainable Tourism Online CoursePublication . Oliveira, Nádia Carreira; Dias, Francisco Teixeira PintoFor the last two decades, the Travel & Tourism industry has gradually become one of the critical engines of the world’s economic and social development, while also a considerable contributor to unsustainable patterns and its consequent damaging effects. The COVID-19 pandemic that stormed the planet at the beginning of this year has created an inflexion point on the industry’s soaring growth trajectories, severely affecting and compromising both its current and future strength and vitality. Concurrently, it has presented time for reflection. The rhetoric for the need to transform the industry has underpinned the numerous pleas and expressed commitment from industry experts, to move beyond ‘business as usual’ and ‘build back better’, towards a shift to a more sustainable and equitable tourism. As a by-product of the internship at Turismo Centro de Portugal, this report consists of a framework proposal for a holistic, seven-week sustainable tourism free online course, to be provided by Turismo Centro de Portugal to its business stakeholders. The underlying idea relies on the assumption that businesses have an essential role to play in transforming the industry and thus, that education for sustainability is an imperative for encouraging them to become catalysing agents, in creating a novel and improved version of tourism and tackling its inherent challenges. Furthermore, as a Regional Tourism Organisation and due to the visibility and the interconnectedness with its stakeholders, Turismo Centro de Portugal is favourably positioned to promote and foster shared sustainable vision for the destination, namely through education. The framework hence serves the seminal purpose of urging Turismo Centro de Portugal to actively engage its business stakeholders to embark on a shared sustainable tourism quest. Given the complex nature of the tourism industry and the proposed objectives of the course, the literary review undertaken serves to substantiate its relevance, content and design structure. Grounded on a theoretical approach based on scientific and empirical research, statistical data and education industry benchmark research and analysis, it reaches the proposed result, both through deductive reasoning - from reading and critical analysis - and existing courses frameworks, framed under the economics, management, tourism, sustainability & sustainable development, innovation, marketing and leadership thematic. The framework is, however, not free from bias since it also relies on personal empirical and practical knowledge. This invariably means that the input from scholars and practitioners is essential.
- Jano rides E-SCOOTER RENTAL SHOPPublication . Pourgive, Tooka; Jorge, João Paulo da Conceição SilvaThe successive research paper is a business plan proposal for JANO RIDES, an e-Scooter rental shop situated in the coastal Village of Ferrel, in Peniche-Portugal. Inadequate public transportation between different villages and towns of Peniche municipality, and excessive usage of private cars by both locals and visitors, has culminated to perpetual noise and air pollution in the center of Ferrel, and all along the main coastal road to the town of Peniche. It is only for a very brief period that the busy commute to Baleal, the most touristic beach of Ferrel, was interrupted, and it was due to none other than the coronavirus pandemic. Peniche as a coastal destination, and as a world-renowned surfing destination, has a long way to ameliorate in its sustainable tourism development, and especially, in the area of transportation. The ever-changing scope of tourism, and the needs of travellers, propels destinations to adapt and evolve. Sustainable development is becoming the foundation on which businesses are built, and its pillars, the environment, economy, and society, are what they thrive off of. The theoretical positioning of the following paper is assigned through the reimaging of the sustainability model from the old, which the three pillars are represented as equals, to one which clearly differentiates between the environment as the sustaining source, and the interactive systems of society and economy. The business plan hereon is not only a framework to meet the tourist demand for individualized transportation, but it also is an effort to demonstrate to the community that there are alternatives for movement around the municipality, that, if adopted by even a small portion of the inhabitants, will drastically change the ambience of the entire municipality of Peniche for the better, and set the tone for future generations to follow suit.
- Análise da performance de crescimento de juvenis de corvina-legítima (Argyrosomus regius (Asso, 1801)) a duas temperaturas alimentadas com diferentes fontes e teores proteicosPublication . Brito, Sara Joana da Silva de Sousa e; Ferreira, Pedro Pousão; Baptista, Teresa Maria CoelhoA corvina-legítima (Argyrosomus regius) é uma espécie que apresenta um elevado valor comercial e que, sob condições de temperatura adequadas, apresenta características interessantes para a prática de uma aquacultura mais sustentável e diversificada na área do mediterrâneo. Uma vez que é uma espécie carnívora com altos requisitos proteicos, e que nos últimos anos se destaca como candidata de excelência para a diversificação da aquacultura, inúmeros estudos têm sido efetuados para determinar quais realmente são os seus níveis ideais de proteína dietética e de que maneira os ingredientes são capazes de impulsionar o seu crescimento, de forma a tornar esta espécie cada vez mais apelativa para a indústria, de um ponto de vista económico e ambiental. Este estudo teve como objetivo avaliar o efeito combinado da temperatura da água e da fonte e teor proteicos da dieta no crescimento, por parte de juvenis de corvina-legítima. Para tal, os peixes (peso corporal inicial: 30,17 ± 5,58g) foram sujeitos a quatro tratamentos distintos (LT CP55, HTCP50, HTCP55 e HT CP55 ALT), realizados a duas temperaturas (22 e 26 ᵒC) e alimentados com três dietas isolipídicas (16,2%), constituídas por 50% de proteína bruta (CP) (dos quais 24,5% eram farinhas de peixe (FP)) e 25,5% eram proteínas de origem vegetal (PV)) (CP50); 55% de CP (dos quais 28% eram FP e 27% eram PV) (CP55); e a dieta alternativa também com 55% de CP (dos quais 7% eram FP, 21% PV e 27% farinhas de aves (FA)) (CP55 ALT), durante um período de 56 dias. Quando comparados os tratamentos com diferentes temperaturas de água (LT CP55 e HT CP55), constatou-se que, os indivíduos sujeitos a 26 °C, obtiveram uma performance notoriamente superior, demonstrando um peso final de 134,53 ± 23,03g e valores de taxa de crescimento específico (TCE), taxa de conversão alimentar (TCA), taxa de eficiência proteica (TEP) e retenção proteica (RP), significativamente superiores, com exceção do índice de consumo diário (ICD) e do índice hepatossomático (IHS), que não diferiram entre indivíduos tratados a diferentes temperaturas. Quando os juvenis foram alimentados com diferentes fontes e teores proteicos (HT CP50, HT CP55 e HT CP55 ALT), apenas se verificaram diferenças nos valores TCA e IHS, demonstrando que, apesar de os peixes alimentados com 55% de CP fazerem uma melhor utilização dos alimentos a temperaturas de 26 °C, a fonte e teor proteicos não influenciam a sua performance de crescimento. Os resultados deste trabalho demonstraram que a temperatura é um fator de extrema importância no cultivo de juvenis de corvina-legítima, e que os indivíduos desta espécie podem ser alimentados com dietas que substituem em grande parte as farinhas de peixe por farinhas de aves.