In 2001, the city of Porto hosted the European Capital of Culture event. ' Porto 2001 ' was a year-long programme of arts, cultural events and urban regeneration activities. The purpose of this article is to discuss the city centre regeneration operation conducted in conjunction with the...

This paper compares the out-of-sample forecasting accuracy of five classes of time series models for market shares of the six most important Portuguese car market competitors over differents horizons. As representative time series models I employ a random-walk with drift (Naive), a univariate...

The years following the Second World War are those of greatest economic growth in Europe. If the countries of the Iberian Peninsula, neutral in the conflict and ruled by dictatorial regimes, enjoyed that growth and had participated in the convergence phenomenon, Ireland, also neutral but...

A abrangência e articulação dos conceitos de lazer, turismo e termalismo, bem como as tendências, características e razões históricas que levaram à alteração do conceito e da(s) prática(s) termal(is) ao longo dos séculos, tornou imperioso proceder à sua clarificação conceptual,...