Vasco Santos

Dr. Vasco Santos

CiTUR - Centre For Tourism Research, Development and Innovation; ESTM; Polytechnic of Leiria
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Academic Career Length

10Years (2017-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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29 April 2021 in Journal of Organizational Change Management
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Vasco SantosVasco Santos
Vasco Santos
PRPaulo Ramos
Paulo Ramos
Bruno Barbosa SousaBruno Barbosa Sousa
Bruno Barbosa Sousa
NANuno Almeida
Nuno Almeida
MVMarco Valeri
Marco Valeri
Purpose: This paper aims to present a content analysis of two major constructs among tourism settings, namely involvement and emotions, strictly related to tourist behaviour, due to the fact that there are still some critical gaps in the knowledge about tourists' emotions and involvement.Design/methodology/approach: An in-depth content analysis of involvement and emotions was adopted as the methodological approach. This methodology addressed an amalgam of different definitions, frameworks, mixed theoretical and practical applications and approaches, results, comparisons as well as a blend of a set of scales of involvement and emotions by confrontating of authors.Findings: The major findings state that emotions and involvement demonstrate greater progress and scientific development to the level of tourism, marketing and consumer behaviour, representing an important issue for the integrated tourism experiences.Originality/value: This study presents a critical reflection on the importance of emotions and involvement in specific contexts of leisure and tourism.

19 January 2021 in Journal of Organizational Change Management
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Vasco SantosVasco Santos
Vasco Santos
PRPaulo Ramos
Paulo Ramos
Bruno Barbosa SousaBruno Barbosa Sousa
Bruno Barbosa Sousa
MVMarco Valeri
Marco Valeri
Purpose: Wine tourism has stood out as a very recognized and valid tourism and marketing segment, growing worldwide and urging the complex needed advances on wine tourism practices performance. This paper aims to develop a new framework strictly applied to the global wine tourism system, taking into account emerging and future constructs and dimensions that precede and consequence it. Design/methodology/approach: The systematic mapping study (SMS) was adopted as the selected research methodological approach, both to analyze and to structure a broad research field concerning methods, designs and research, focuses on the papers published in reliable academic databases such as Emerald, ProQuest, Sage, Science Direct, Scopus, Wiley, Web of Science, Taylor and Francis and Wiley were properly selected and analyzed. Findings: The following four dimensions were found to comprise the global framework of the wine tourism system: (1) support features (governance, public policies and economic investment; supply development; physical and capacity conditions; requirements of health safety; opinion makers and leaders: managers/stakeholders/players/marketers and benchmarking and value chain); (2) innovation ecosystem (profile of the new generations of wine tourists; virtual and augmented reality: digital and hybrid wine events; smart wine tourism companies; digital channels and platforms: blogs, websites, applications; wine tourism creative activities for all [from kids to seniors] and sustainable and ecologic wine tourism practices); (3) wine tourism experience dimensions (storytelling; involvement; winescape; attachment; emotions and sensory) and (4) behavioural intentions (satisfaction; loyalty; and WoM). Research limitations/implications: The framework still needs to be empirically applied in wine tourism settings to enrich tourists’ robustness in cross-cultural wine tourism experiences, covering a wider spread of abroad wine tourism destinations and products. Practical implications: This framework is a useful tool and becomes vital to their continued success, as a key reference of wine tourism management and marketing. As a wine tourist's visitation frequency plays a role in his/her travel motives, product and service quality of tour packages must be improved and monitored. Originality/value: This is the first research study to demonstrate the combined use of the main domains forming the wine tourism system within a global perspective, covering of the most critical aspects.

2 December 2019 in Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes
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Vasco SantosVasco Santos
Vasco Santos
PRPaulo Ramos
Paulo Ramos
NANuno Almeida
Nuno Almeida
ESEnrique Santos-Pavón
Enrique Santos-Pavón
Purpose: This paper aims to provide a theoretical and conceptual analysis of wine and wine tourism experiences evidencing the current state of the art and providing some directions for future research. Design/methodology/approach: The paper provides an in-depth literature review and content analysis of prior work. Findings: The experience focussed on wine andwine tourismrequires further exploration. The boundaries of the wine andwine tourism experience were identified, togetherwith highlights and strategic agenda for future actions. Originality/value: Based on some key prior literature on the topic of wine and tourism experience, future research directions and approaches were proposed.

19 May 2021 in Current Issues in Tourism
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Vasco SantosVasco Santos
Vasco Santos
Bruno Barbosa SousaBruno Barbosa Sousa
Bruno Barbosa Sousa
PRPaulo Ramos
Paulo Ramos
MVMarco Valeri
Marco Valeri
This paper aims to present an extensive content analysis of two major constructs directly related to tourist behaviours (i.e. involvement and emotions), because there are still some critical gaps in the knowledge about tourists’ emotions and involvement. An in-depth content analysis of involvement and emotions was adopted as a methodological approach. To address the content analysis, a set of papers published in renowned scientific databases, such as Science Direct, Web of Science, Scopus, Emerald, Taylor and Francis, Elsevier, Sage and Wiley were selected and analysed. The major findings state that emotions and involvement demonstrate greater progress and scientific development to the level of tourism, marketing and consumer behaviour, representing an important issue for the integrated tourism experiences. Future studies should analyse and evaluate the role and impact of emotions and involvement in post-pandemic contexts. Hence, there is a growing potential for managers and stakeholders to achieve the benefits derived from the study outcomes.

16 October 2021 in Sustainability
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Vasco SantosVasco Santos
Vasco Santos
Maria José SousaMaria José Sousa
Maria José Sousa
Carlos CostaCarlos Costa
Carlos Costa
Manuel Luís Au-Yong-OliveiraManuel Luís Au-Yong-Oliveira
Manuel Luís Au-Yong-Oliveira
In this paper, we analyze the progress of tourism towards sustainability and innovation through a systematic literature review summarizing the last five years of research strictly focused on innovation and sustainability applied to tourism. This research comprises a range of theories, practices, methods, and results pursuing innovation and sustainability across different levels, stages, and drivers, and in many tourism contexts. Wide, in-depth, and structured analysis, evaluation, and examination (using the PRISMA and VOSviewer tools) of a final sample of 50 scholarly papers from 27 journals, published between 2017 and the first quarter of 2021, were undertaken. Current publications emphasize qualitative, quantitative, and mixed research methods, as well as statistical and econometric methods, such as descriptive statistics, factor analysis, and structural equation modeling. This study categorizes the four major topics identified, sustainability, innovation, sustainable development, and sustainable tourism, which comprised the contextual dimensions and relevant stages of the subject areas examined. This systematic literature review highlights advances and the significantly increasing overall number of papers over recent years. Currently, sustainability is in a more advanced state compared to innovation. The outcomes highlight that the indicators of sustainability and innovation still need further analysis within the tourism context. However, more concrete process indicators are needed for continuous improvement of the front-end of innovation and sustainable tourism. The results help in better understanding the sustainability and innovation process as applied to tourism. In particular, this study explores further direct linkages between sustainability and innovation and tourism, discussing and providing new future directions aligned with the closing remarks as well as a strategic agenda for future action post-COVID-19.

9 December 2020 in Information
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BMBeatriz Monteiro
Beatriz Monteiro
Vasco SantosVasco Santos
Vasco Santos
Isabel Pinto ReisIsabel Pinto Reis
Isabel Pinto Reis
Marta Correia SampaioMarta Correia Sampaio
Marta Correia Sampaio
Bruno Barbosa SousaBruno Barbosa Sousa
Bruno Barbosa Sousa
Manuel Luís Au-Yong-OliveiraManuel Luís Au-Yong-Oliveira
Manuel Luís Au-Yong-Oliveira
Most business enterprises are small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and many of them are without a human resource and recruitment department. Thus, one of the challenges that organizations currently face is to find a strategy to retain and attract talent. To overcome this difficulty, enterprises must invest in employer branding policies and be aware of the factors that differentiate them from others when attracting employees. This study aims to develop an employer branding model applicable to SMEs, to increase and enhance the attraction and retention of talents. An exploratory approach based on a quantitative perspective was adopted to develop an employer branding model applied to SMEs, with two major reference employer branding models and frameworks used as the main support. The model of employer branding was applied to SMEs regarding four dimensions, whereby essential questions are asked, namely (1) organizational culture (e.g., do employees have a job description aligned with the corporate culture?), (2) company strategy (e.g., what is the strategy if business volume decreases?), (3) company reputation (e.g., how do you perceive and treat negative feedback?), and (4) reward systems (e.g., do you feel that your employees are motivated intrinsically or extrinsically or both?), ordered by layers based on a logical sequence. The new proposed model is expected to serve as a useful strategic tool and as a basis for attracting, retaining and managing talent, specifically in the SMEs context. This new model provides a set of strategic and competitiveness benefits for SMEs, while contributing to making enterprises more profitable. The model also contributes to SMEs having a better image and reputation, enabling them to stand out from others in the war for talent.