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Understanding and managing the rural tourism experience — The case of a historical village in Portugal

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In this article, the authors examined the rural tourism experience offered by a small village in Central Portugal that uses its heritage and traditions to offer such experiences, and concluded that social, emotional and symbolic dimensions of the experience, associated with rurality, are important determinants of tourist satisfaction.
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This article is published in Tourism Management Perspectives.The article was published on 2012-10-01. It has received 198 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Tourism geography & Rural tourism.

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Tourism product development and product diversification in destinations

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed two conceptual frameworks which assist with analyzing and understanding the features, relationships and strategic options associated with tourism product development, concentration, diversification and intensification in destinations.
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Revitalizing traditional villages through rural tourism: A case study of Yuanjia Village, Shaanxi Province, China

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed an integrative and sustainable Rural Tourism-based Traditional Village Revitalization model to better understand the relationship between rural tourism and village revitalization, and a case study of the village of Yuanjia reveals that the model's three levels (material, social and spiritual) are effective pathways for successful village revitalisation.
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Exploring the conceptualization of the sensory dimension of tourist experiences

TL;DR: A review of empirical studies conducted under the experiential paradigm of tourism on the five human senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch) evinces the use of both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, which depends on research purposes, but also the practical implications of findings and data analysis to destination marketing and management as mentioned in this paper.
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How to Influence Rural Tourism Intention by Risk Knowledge during COVID-19 Containment in China: Mediating Role of Risk Perception and Attitude.

TL;DR: A structural equation model was proposed to compare risk knowledge, risk perception, risk aversion attitudes and behavioral intentions towards rural tourism and according to the empirical results, there was a large proportion of tourists showing preference for rural tourism recently.
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The sensory dimension of tourist experiences: Capturing meaningful sensory-informed themes in Southwest Portugal

TL;DR: In this paper, a self-administered survey in four languages was collected from 181 tourists in Southwest Portugal and four sensory-informed themes, tentatively named generic beach-related experience, nature-based experience, balanced experience, and rural experience, correspond to a four-solution cluster of tourists presenting different profiles.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the process of inducting theory using case studies from specifying the research questions to reaching closure, which is a process similar to hypothesis-testing research.
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Building theories from case study research.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define a leadership event as a perceived segment of action whose meaning is created by the interactions of actors involved in producing it, and present a set of innovative methods for capturing and analyzing these contextually driven processes.
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The research act: A theoretical introduction to sociological methods

TL;DR: The Research Act as discussed by the authors is a textbook for methods courses and a major contribution to sociological theory, which teaches students the principles of research and how to construct and test theories by presenting four major approaches to experimentation: survey research, participant observation, life histories, and symbolic interaction.
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TL;DR: The Four-Step Method of Inquiry Quality Control The Writing-Up Process Managing Qualitative Research Conclusion as discussed by the authors The four-step method of inquiry quality control is used in this paper.
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Hedonic Consumption ; Emerging Concepts, Methods and Propositions

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define hedonic consumption as those facets of consumer behavior that relate to the multisensory, fantasy and emotive aspects of product usage experience.
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