Mafalda Patuleia

Biographic Data

ID3557351
NAMEMafalda Patuleia
GIVEN NAMESMafalda
FAMILY NAMEPatuleia
SIGNATUREPATULEIA M
AFFILIATIONSUniversidade Lusófona
ORCID0000-0002-8401-1860
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS7
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • The Influence of Festivals and Events on Tourists’ Willingness to Visit Madeira Island

    Open AccessAv das Forças Armadas Lisbon Portugal ISCTE-IUL, Érica VIEIRA et al.ARTICLEGeoJournal of Tourism and Geosites2026

    The present study aims to understand the impact of summer festivals and events in willingness to visit Madeira Island. Based on the theory of planned behavior and willingness to participate in festivals and events, it analyses the correlation of these factors in willingness to visit. Moreover, age is used as a moderator effect in willingness to participate to conclude the final impact in the intention to travel to this Island. After conducting a …

  • Developing sustainable business models

    Alvaro Dias, Álvaro Lopes Dias et al.ARTICLEJournal of Sustainable Tourism2023

    Tourism lifestyle entrepreneurs’ (TLEs) businesses are associated with sustainable business models (SBMs) due to a link to the place. This link is a source of essential local knowledge that provides differentiation, competitiveness, and sustainability. Given the importance of local knowledge to SBMs, this article explores knowledge management by examining how TLEs acquire and integrate knowledge as well as its effects on innovativeness and self-e…

  • Creative tourism destination competitiveness

    Alvaro Dias, Álvaro Lopes Dias et al.ARTICLECreative Industries Journal2023

    Creative tourism has been approached from several points of view: products and processes, enabling elements, marketing, sustainability, etc. However, to our best knowledge, there is no integrative model that brings together all its dimensions and enables a ‘bird’s eye’ perspective of creative destination competitiveness. As such, this article aims to present a competitiveness model for a creative tourism destination. The model presents four essen…

  • (Re)defining Entrepreneurship in a Post-Pandemic Context

    Open AccessAlvaro Dias, Álvaro Lopes Dias et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences2023References: 10

    More than three years have passed since the first lockdown, and the world is not the same [...]

  • Financial Objectives and Satisfaction with Life

    Open AccessAndré O’neill, Alvaro Dias et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences2022Cited by: 2References: 58

    Tourism lifestyle entrepreneurs (TLEs) have introduced an innovation in business management based on the region, community, environmental sustainability, and extra financial factors. This type of entrepreneur allows the development of regions by attracting investment and presenting innovative products/services and is an important aid to the local economy. Based on the importance of TLEs, this study aims to explore factors influencing satisfaction…

  • Transforming local knowledge into lifestyle entrepreneur’s innovativeness

    Alvaro Dias, Álvaro Lopes Dias et al.ARTICLECurrent Issues in Tourism2021

    Tourism Lifestyle Entrepreneurs (TLEs) play an essential role in the innovation and competitiveness of tourist destinations. However, little attention has been paid to how these entrepreneurs manage local knowledge and turn it into innovation. This research examines how place attachment, community-centered strategy, and knowledge assimilation influence lifestyle entrepreneur’s innovativeness. A mixed methodology was applied with an online survey …

  • Retaining tourism lifestyle entrepreneurs for destination competitiveness

    Open AccessAlvaro Dias, Álvaro Lopes Dias et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Tourism…2021

    Due to their representativeness in the universe of tourism businesses and the potential to generate innovation, tourism lifestyle entrepreneurs (TLEs) play an essential role in the competitiveness of tourism destinations. Despite this vital importance, the antecedents of innovation generated by these entrepreneurs and their willingness to stay at the destination are still under‐explored. Findings from a survey of 178 TLEs indicate that the contex…

  • Developing poor communities through creative tourism

    Alvaro Dias, Álvaro Lopes Dias et al.ARTICLEJournal of Tourism and Cultural…2020Cited by: 5References: 10

    The research on creative tourism is mainly focused on developed western economies. Studies about developing countries with a significant percentage of the population living in poverty are still scarce. As such, this study is based on extensive field research and in-depth interviews of four poor communities in two countries (Brazil and Peru). The main goal is to identify a group of factors and their inter-relation as they contribute to the develop…