Patricia Pinto
Biographic Data
| ID | 3624616 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Pinto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia |
| FAMILY NAME | Pinto |
| SIGNATURE | PINTO P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Algarve |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3153-2830 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Can sudden fluctuations in tourism demand influence the earnings management practices of the hotel industry? Evidence from Portugal
This study examines how sudden shifts in tourism demand affect the Earnings Management (EM) strategies of hotel firms, using Portuguese companies as the study context. This paper uses accounting data from 490 non-listed Portuguese hotel firms collected from the ORBIS database over the 2016–2021 period. The presence of EM practices is investigated using the methodology developed by Burgstahler and Dichev (1997), while panel data regression is used…
Holisticscape dimensions of the tourism experience in wellness spas
The present study examines how tourists’ experiences in wellness spas promote holistic health through the Holisticscape framework from both tourists’ and other stakeholders’ perspectives, an extension of the servicescape that encompasses the ambience, social, activity, body, mind, and spirit dimensions. An exploratory, multi-stakeholder qualitative design was employed, with 20 in-depth interviews conducted in wellness spas in Portugal. Thematic a…
Modelling Destination Loyalty in Wellness Tourism
Wellness tourism, a rapidly expanding sector within the global travel industry, focuses on experiences designed to maintain or enhance individuals’ well-being. Building on Safety System Theory and Attention Restoration Theory (ART), this study investigates the dynamics of destination loyalty in the context of wellness tourism. Specifically, it examines the interplay between destination loyalty and tourist perceived safety at destinations (TPSD), …
Piloting a cancer awareness app across six European countries
Background Cancer remains a significant public health challenge in Europe, accounting for over 22% of global cancer cases. Mobile health applications may help to increase the awareness of cancer risks and preventive behaviors. However, usability barriers and disparities in digital health literacy (DHL) may limit their impact. Objective This study evaluated the usability of the EU Mobile App for Cancer Prevention and changes in cancer awareness as…
Broadening tourism experience and destination image
Although previous studies deal with tourism experience, destination image and related outcomes, this study innovates by elaborating on a more comprehensive view of the tourism experience and destination image. Guided by suggestions for more research in the relevant literature, this study examines the correlation between tourism experience, experiential destination image, tourism memory, satisfaction and loyalty and explores domestic and internati…
The contribution of tourism experiences to eudaimonic well-being
Despite the growing interest in exploring the tourism experiences of Generation Z and their significant influence on the tourism industry, there is a dearth of investigation into the eudaimonic consequences of tourism among this cohort. Eudaimonic well-being refers to understanding yourself, having a meaningful life, and actively pursuing excellence. Drawing on the psychological well-being approach, this study explores how Generation Z describes …
Development and validation of the new resident empowerment through Tourism Scale
This study developed a new version of the Resident Empowerment through Tourism Scale - the RETS 2.0 by integrating two new dimensions of empowerment – economic and environmental empowerment – that the original RETS left off. The RETS 2.0 also abbreviates the original RETS to three items per a construct, reducing response burden, and opening up space for measuring different antecedents and outcomes of empowerment. The RETS 2.0 was empirically test…
Perceptions Towards the Adoption of Multi-Risk Factors Cancer Prevention Educational Tool Among European Union Citizens
Background: Cancer is a major public health problem. Four million new cancer cases are diagnosed annually in Europe, of which around 40% could be prevented. The European Code Against Cancer (ECAC) is a health education tool to raise awareness about risk factors and evidence-based measures to prevent cancer. The ECAC 4th edition consists of 12 recommendations to reduce individuals’ cancer risk and related deaths. This study explores perceived barr…
Empowerment-based nutrition interventions on blood pressure
Introduction Empowerment lifestyle programs are needed to reduce the risk of hypertension. Our study compared the effectiveness of two empowerment-based approaches toward blood pressure (BP) reduction: salt reduction-specific program vs. healthy lifestyle general program. Methods Three hundred and eleven adults (median age of 44 years, IQR 34–54 years) were randomly assigned to a salt reduction ( n = 147) or a healthy lifestyle program ( n = 164)…
Environmental attitudes and behaviour of birdwatchers
Birdwatching is one of the fastest growing sectors of ecotourism. Managing this nature-based activity requires understanding birdwatchers’ attitudes and behaviour towards the natural environment. This paper proposes assessing these attitudes and the link to behavioural intentions by combining the New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) with a criterion-based segmentation method, the chi-squared automatic interaction detector (CHAID). This methodology wa…
Understanding attitudes towards the adoption of nature-based solutions and policy priorities shaped by stakeholders’ awareness of climate change
Climate change is affecting cities worldwide. Accordingly, cities are required to find sustainable solutions to tackle climate change’s effects, designing bottom-up policies to enhance their success. The involvement of stakeholders plays a central role in the definition of appropriate policies to tackle the challenges posed to cities by climate change. Nature-based solutions (NBS) are increasingly proposed to adapt to and mitigate the adverse eff…
Novelty in tourism experiences
Tourists’ tendency to choose new and different experiences and destinations is well known in tourism research and practice. By drawing on social exchange theory and service-dominant logic, the present study investigates how physical staging and human interaction influence behavioural intentions in experiences with varying levels of novelty. This relationship is tested using survey data collected from visitors to a theme park with structural equat…
Does coping mediate the effect of financial threat on life satisfaction? A multigroup analysis
The year of 2007 was marked by one of the most severe global financial crises, which led to an increase of psychopathological symptoms that negatively affected life satisfaction. This research analyzed how financial threat was associated with life satisfaction and how coping, as a mediating variable, influenced this relationship. The theoretical model was tested through a sample of 901 Portuguese individuals, averaging 37 years old (SD=12.86). A …
Handbook of Research on Resident and Tourist Perspectives on Travel Destinations
"This book explores resident and tourist perspectives to understand the composite reality of tourism destinations and to support the development of marketing strategies for these destinations"
Historical Significance of Labor's Increased Precariousness in Germany, the United Kingdom, and Spain
This article addresses the historical significance of the increasing precariousness of labor, even in the most advanced economies. Given the sterility of the mainstream approach, based on methodological individualism, we start from a Marxist critique of political economy, focusing on the laws that govern the process of capitalist accumulation and its contradictions. Within the framework of these laws, we analyze the tendency of labor exploitation…
Tourists' memories, sensory impressions and loyalty
Residents’ attitudes and the adoption of pro-tourism behaviours
Contribuição da literacia emergente para o desempenho em leitura no final do 1.o CEB
Aprender a ler e a escrever constituem desafios não só para as crianças, mas também para os agenteseducativos que acompanham este processo. Identificar e promover as condições que facilitam umpercurso de sucesso são preocupações centrais da comunidade escolar e científica. Este estudoprocurou analisar em que medida as competências de literacia emergente, avaliadas na educação pré-escolar, predizem o desempenho em leitura e escrita no final do 1.o…
SP6-21 Patterns of breastfeeding and determinant factors in Brazil
Breastfeeding has innumerable advantages on the child, its family and society. Although the governmental efforts, of the professionals of health and the society in the direction to promote, to protect and to support this practical, the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding until 6th life month remains less than ideal. The objective of this study is to determine the correlation of exclusive and non-exclusive breastfeeding with some basic health in…
Tourists' memories, sensory impressions and loyalty
Residents’ attitudes and the adoption of pro-tourism behaviours
The contribution of tourism experiences to eudaimonic well-being
Despite the growing interest in exploring the tourism experiences of Generation Z and their significant influence on the tourism industry, there is a dearth of investigation into the eudaimonic consequences of tourism among this cohort. Eudaimonic well-being refers to understanding yourself, having a meaningful life, and actively pursuing excellence. Drawing on the psychological well-being approach, this study explores how Generation Z describes …
Environmental attitudes and behaviour of birdwatchers
Birdwatching is one of the fastest growing sectors of ecotourism. Managing this nature-based activity requires understanding birdwatchers’ attitudes and behaviour towards the natural environment. This paper proposes assessing these attitudes and the link to behavioural intentions by combining the New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) with a criterion-based segmentation method, the chi-squared automatic interaction detector (CHAID). This methodology wa…
Understanding attitudes towards the adoption of nature-based solutions and policy priorities shaped by stakeholders’ awareness of climate change
Climate change is affecting cities worldwide. Accordingly, cities are required to find sustainable solutions to tackle climate change’s effects, designing bottom-up policies to enhance their success. The involvement of stakeholders plays a central role in the definition of appropriate policies to tackle the challenges posed to cities by climate change. Nature-based solutions (NBS) are increasingly proposed to adapt to and mitigate the adverse eff…
Historical Significance of Labor's Increased Precariousness in Germany, the United Kingdom, and Spain
This article addresses the historical significance of the increasing precariousness of labor, even in the most advanced economies. Given the sterility of the mainstream approach, based on methodological individualism, we start from a Marxist critique of political economy, focusing on the laws that govern the process of capitalist accumulation and its contradictions. Within the framework of these laws, we analyze the tendency of labor exploitation…
Development and validation of the new resident empowerment through Tourism Scale
This study developed a new version of the Resident Empowerment through Tourism Scale - the RETS 2.0 by integrating two new dimensions of empowerment – economic and environmental empowerment – that the original RETS left off. The RETS 2.0 also abbreviates the original RETS to three items per a construct, reducing response burden, and opening up space for measuring different antecedents and outcomes of empowerment. The RETS 2.0 was empirically test…
Perceptions Towards the Adoption of Multi-Risk Factors Cancer Prevention Educational Tool Among European Union Citizens
Background: Cancer is a major public health problem. Four million new cancer cases are diagnosed annually in Europe, of which around 40% could be prevented. The European Code Against Cancer (ECAC) is a health education tool to raise awareness about risk factors and evidence-based measures to prevent cancer. The ECAC 4th edition consists of 12 recommendations to reduce individuals’ cancer risk and related deaths. This study explores perceived barr…
SP6-21 Patterns of breastfeeding and determinant factors in Brazil
Breastfeeding has innumerable advantages on the child, its family and society. Although the governmental efforts, of the professionals of health and the society in the direction to promote, to protect and to support this practical, the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding until 6th life month remains less than ideal. The objective of this study is to determine the correlation of exclusive and non-exclusive breastfeeding with some basic health in…
Contribuição da literacia emergente para o desempenho em leitura no final do 1.o CEB
Aprender a ler e a escrever constituem desafios não só para as crianças, mas também para os agenteseducativos que acompanham este processo. Identificar e promover as condições que facilitam umpercurso de sucesso são preocupações centrais da comunidade escolar e científica. Este estudoprocurou analisar em que medida as competências de literacia emergente, avaliadas na educação pré-escolar, predizem o desempenho em leitura e escrita no final do 1.o…
Tourists' memories, sensory impressions and loyalty
Residents’ attitudes and the adoption of pro-tourism behaviours
Historical Significance of Labor's Increased Precariousness in Germany, the United Kingdom, and Spain
This article addresses the historical significance of the increasing precariousness of labor, even in the most advanced economies. Given the sterility of the mainstream approach, based on methodological individualism, we start from a Marxist critique of political economy, focusing on the laws that govern the process of capitalist accumulation and its contradictions. Within the framework of these laws, we analyze the tendency of labor exploitation…
Handbook of Research on Resident and Tourist Perspectives on Travel Destinations
"This book explores resident and tourist perspectives to understand the composite reality of tourism destinations and to support the development of marketing strategies for these destinations"
Novelty in tourism experiences
Tourists’ tendency to choose new and different experiences and destinations is well known in tourism research and practice. By drawing on social exchange theory and service-dominant logic, the present study investigates how physical staging and human interaction influence behavioural intentions in experiences with varying levels of novelty. This relationship is tested using survey data collected from visitors to a theme park with structural equat…
Does coping mediate the effect of financial threat on life satisfaction? A multigroup analysis
The year of 2007 was marked by one of the most severe global financial crises, which led to an increase of psychopathological symptoms that negatively affected life satisfaction. This research analyzed how financial threat was associated with life satisfaction and how coping, as a mediating variable, influenced this relationship. The theoretical model was tested through a sample of 901 Portuguese individuals, averaging 37 years old (SD=12.86). A …
Understanding attitudes towards the adoption of nature-based solutions and policy priorities shaped by stakeholders’ awareness of climate change
Climate change is affecting cities worldwide. Accordingly, cities are required to find sustainable solutions to tackle climate change’s effects, designing bottom-up policies to enhance their success. The involvement of stakeholders plays a central role in the definition of appropriate policies to tackle the challenges posed to cities by climate change. Nature-based solutions (NBS) are increasingly proposed to adapt to and mitigate the adverse eff…
Empowerment-based nutrition interventions on blood pressure
Introduction Empowerment lifestyle programs are needed to reduce the risk of hypertension. Our study compared the effectiveness of two empowerment-based approaches toward blood pressure (BP) reduction: salt reduction-specific program vs. healthy lifestyle general program. Methods Three hundred and eleven adults (median age of 44 years, IQR 34–54 years) were randomly assigned to a salt reduction ( n = 147) or a healthy lifestyle program ( n = 164)…
Environmental attitudes and behaviour of birdwatchers
Birdwatching is one of the fastest growing sectors of ecotourism. Managing this nature-based activity requires understanding birdwatchers’ attitudes and behaviour towards the natural environment. This paper proposes assessing these attitudes and the link to behavioural intentions by combining the New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) with a criterion-based segmentation method, the chi-squared automatic interaction detector (CHAID). This methodology wa…
Development and validation of the new resident empowerment through Tourism Scale
This study developed a new version of the Resident Empowerment through Tourism Scale - the RETS 2.0 by integrating two new dimensions of empowerment – economic and environmental empowerment – that the original RETS left off. The RETS 2.0 also abbreviates the original RETS to three items per a construct, reducing response burden, and opening up space for measuring different antecedents and outcomes of empowerment. The RETS 2.0 was empirically test…
Perceptions Towards the Adoption of Multi-Risk Factors Cancer Prevention Educational Tool Among European Union Citizens
Background: Cancer is a major public health problem. Four million new cancer cases are diagnosed annually in Europe, of which around 40% could be prevented. The European Code Against Cancer (ECAC) is a health education tool to raise awareness about risk factors and evidence-based measures to prevent cancer. The ECAC 4th edition consists of 12 recommendations to reduce individuals’ cancer risk and related deaths. This study explores perceived barr…
Piloting a cancer awareness app across six European countries
Background Cancer remains a significant public health challenge in Europe, accounting for over 22% of global cancer cases. Mobile health applications may help to increase the awareness of cancer risks and preventive behaviors. However, usability barriers and disparities in digital health literacy (DHL) may limit their impact. Objective This study evaluated the usability of the EU Mobile App for Cancer Prevention and changes in cancer awareness as…
Broadening tourism experience and destination image
Although previous studies deal with tourism experience, destination image and related outcomes, this study innovates by elaborating on a more comprehensive view of the tourism experience and destination image. Guided by suggestions for more research in the relevant literature, this study examines the correlation between tourism experience, experiential destination image, tourism memory, satisfaction and loyalty and explores domestic and internati…
The contribution of tourism experiences to eudaimonic well-being
Despite the growing interest in exploring the tourism experiences of Generation Z and their significant influence on the tourism industry, there is a dearth of investigation into the eudaimonic consequences of tourism among this cohort. Eudaimonic well-being refers to understanding yourself, having a meaningful life, and actively pursuing excellence. Drawing on the psychological well-being approach, this study explores how Generation Z describes …
Can sudden fluctuations in tourism demand influence the earnings management practices of the hotel industry? Evidence from Portugal
This study examines how sudden shifts in tourism demand affect the Earnings Management (EM) strategies of hotel firms, using Portuguese companies as the study context. This paper uses accounting data from 490 non-listed Portuguese hotel firms collected from the ORBIS database over the 2016–2021 period. The presence of EM practices is investigated using the methodology developed by Burgstahler and Dichev (1997), while panel data regression is used…
Holisticscape dimensions of the tourism experience in wellness spas
The present study examines how tourists’ experiences in wellness spas promote holistic health through the Holisticscape framework from both tourists’ and other stakeholders’ perspectives, an extension of the servicescape that encompasses the ambience, social, activity, body, mind, and spirit dimensions. An exploratory, multi-stakeholder qualitative design was employed, with 20 in-depth interviews conducted in wellness spas in Portugal. Thematic a…
Modelling Destination Loyalty in Wellness Tourism
Wellness tourism, a rapidly expanding sector within the global travel industry, focuses on experiences designed to maintain or enhance individuals’ well-being. Building on Safety System Theory and Attention Restoration Theory (ART), this study investigates the dynamics of destination loyalty in the context of wellness tourism. Specifically, it examines the interplay between destination loyalty and tourist perceived safety at destinations (TPSD), …
Tourism (10 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Marketing (5 works) · Destinations (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Structural equation modeling (4 works)