Air transport and tourism destinations: the case of Oporto Airport and Portugal’s Northern Region
- Autores: Vânia Costa, Cláudia Ribeiro de Almeida, Oscarina Conceição
- Localización: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, ISSN 1645-9261, Nº. 27-28, 2, 2017 (Ejemplar dedicado a: INVTUR 2017 Intl' Conference), págs. 209-213
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
This study aims to analyse the relationship between airports and the evolution of international tourism in a peripheral region. Thanks to the liberalization of European airspace and to the emergence in the market of low-cost carriers (low cost carriers - LCC), certain destinations, such as cities with different tourism offers, have experienced a strong growth in tourism flows. In the present study we developed an analysis of several studies that focus their attention in investigating the interconnection of air transport and tourism, mainly the contribution of air transport for the internationalization of tourism. This article focuses a case study of the only international airport in northern Portugal – Oporto Airport. Over the past few years, this airport experienced a large increase in traffic, which led to the development of international tourism in the airport’s area of influence – Greater Oporto and northern Portugal. The growth in Oporto Airport’s traffic emerges as an element of attractiveness in the destination system in the northern region of Portugal and as a dynamic factor in regional development.
