The concept of Hospitality is very broad, ranging from commerce and market to people and their relationships. It is related to exchange relations, in the economical, social, and psychological fields. For health institutions ...

The purposes of this paper were to investigate the meanings of practices of tourism for people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in their leisure time, revealing the real conditions of them as in the effective practice of leisure ...

This study entitled: Tourism and its Speeches: Perception and Attribution in the city of Caxias do Sul/RS, reports on an exploratory research that has as objective to analyze perceptions that hotel workers in Caxias do Sul ...

Massive tourism has caused negative impacts to the natural environment, forcing tourism related companies, specially hotels, to introduce actions for environmental protection into its management procedures. Environmental ...

The hotel is an important element for tourist activity and for human displacement. It is part of the tourist destination offer and of the tourist product. In the city of Porto Alegre, this study analyzed the elements ...

This dissertation presents a study about the social and cultural process of tourism in an island called Ilha da Pintada (Porto Alegre/RS/Brazil). Contrary to what the word island could suggest, this is not an isolated ...

The rural area passed by a redefinition in agriculture and in the cattle-breeding sectors in the world and also in Brazil, configuring new activities and functions non-agricultural as the tourism. The several possibilities ...

The present study has for investigation s subject the importance of Gauchos´ gastronomy in the hotel industry, especially in the city of Porto Alegre. The absence of studies about the quality of food services in the Gauchos´ ...

Tourism is an essentially human activity, and the tourist is one of the elements of the tourist demand. This research studies tourist behavior according to Albert Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory, specially the self-efficacy ...

The work entitled ´Juridical Relation between Travel Agencies and Tourists-consumers - Problems and Conflicts in Porto Alegre/RS` concerns the juridical relations between travel agencies (provider of tourism services) and ...