Welcome to TERRITUR
This is the website of the research group on Tourism, Heritage & Space (TERRITUR) at the Centre for Geographical Studies (CEG), Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning of the University of Lisbon (IGOT-ULisboa). We are a multidisciplinary group of scholars joined by the curiosity to explore the ways in which culture, nature and places are produced, transformed and consumed through tourism. We are proud to be one of the oldest and largest research groups studying and writing about tourism in Portugal.
New book with TERRITUR's signature
The book Ambiance, Tourism and the City investigates how tourism affects the ambiences experienced in contemporary cities across the globe. This is one of the latest publications by TERRITUR researchers, which emphasises the centrality of the concept of ambience as a lens for understanding the creation and recreation of urban places for tourist consumption. Discover this and other recent outputs by visiting Publications.
PhD and postdoctoral training
TERRITUR research group is open to host highly motivated PhD candidates and post-doc researchers with promising, quality-oriented profiles, and innovative research proposals.
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PhD and postdoctoral training
TERRITUR is open to integrate in its team doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows and researchers with projects that fit in our main research lines, as well as visiting foreign scholars and research fellows for short periods. TERRITUR collaborates in their scientific training, supports their individual research and provides a teamwork environment that encourages them to successfully achieve their goals. Candidates are invited to send their research proposals, accompanied by the curriculum vitae and a letter of recommendation. The proposals should be sent to the integrated researcher of the team with whom the candidate intends to carry out his/her research, or to the TERRITUR Coordinator (see contacts and profiles in People).
A new Routledge book with TERRITUR's signature
How does tourism and urban development affect the lived ambiances of contemporary cities around the world? As most of the existing literature on sensory atmospheres says little about the intersection between tourism and atmospheric production, Ambiance, Tourism and the City affirms the centrality of the notion of ambiance as a mode of inquiry into the making and remaking of urban places for tourist consumption. The TERRITUR's researcher Daniel Paiva is a co-editor.
CEG-Tourism Week '23
Organised by TERRITUR, it took place from 25 to 29 September, with a varied agenda of events.
New publication in the TERRITUR Policy Brief series
Discover this and other recent outputs from TERRITUR researchers by visiting Publications.
SMARTDEST Project conference
The SMARTDEST Project will organise a dissemination conference on city labs, participatory planning and management of tourist mobilities. Several international experiences will be presented and discussed.
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TERRITUR Policy Brief 2023
A new issue of the TERRITUR Policy Brief series will be released soon. The document will disclose preliminary results from a survey on the impacts of covid-19 on short-term rentals in Lisbon.
Launch will be announced soon.
Volunteers for UrBio Project
We are recruiting participants for an experiment within the UrBio project. Participation will last about one hour and will consist of a simple walk with two biosensors monitoring some physiological data, followed by a short interview.
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Volunteers for UrBio Project
UrBio aims to develop and test inclusive and participatory mixed methodologies that use biosensor data to plan and design healthy, convivial and sustainable tourism, consumption and leisure areas.
We want to include citizens in the research process and use biosensor data to enable citizens to reflect and express the impact of the urban environment on their daily lives.
Thus, we are conducting an experimental study in which mobile electroencephalogram (EEG) and galvanic skin response (GSR) devices are used to understand how environmental sensory stimuli affect: (i) people's attention, emotions and physical state; and (ii) the trajectories and activities that people choose to undertake.
SMARTDEST promotes a City Lab in Lisbon
The SMARTDEST Project carried out, in partnership with the municipality of Lisbon, a collaborative project to reconcile tourist mobilities and long-term residents.
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SMARTDEST promotes a City Lab in Lisbon
The SMARTDEST Project team organised with the Lisbon Urban Information Centre (CIUL) a City Lab to propose and test innovative urban solutions for the cohabitation of transient populations and long-term residents in touristy neighborhoods. This City Lab has focused on the Misericórdia borough, Lisbon.
On the July 5, 2022, a group of people who live or work in Misericórdia participated in a World Café, in which they discussed ways to improve public space, make commerce more accessible, strengthen neighbourhood ties, and improve mobility/accessibility in the neighbourhood.
Three weeks later, a new meeting was held to work on the results of the previous session. Three proposals were prototyped: the creation of a discount card for local residents and workers, the implementation of guided tours in the parish, and the organisation of convivial spaces/moments of conviviality in public space.
On September 26, those three proposals was tested. Participants walked through the Misericórdia borough to find out the opinion of those who live or work there. The prototypes were then debated in the light of the opinions collected, and then adjusted.
The next stages of City Lab-Misericórdia are now underway. A public presentation of this urban lab has already taken place, and a meeting to share experiences with the other cities in the project is planned to take place in March 2023.
