Art garden: host experience

• Autor(a) principal: Briganti, Alessandra
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/14895
• topic: Creative cities; Tourism; Algarve; Art; Accommodation; Interior Design; Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Naturais::Outras Ciências Naturais

The Algarve is a Region of south Portugal and Faro is its capital. Every year, thousands of tourists come to Algarve to enjoy its Natural Heritage, visit the amazing beaches and birdwatching spots. Faro also has a rich Historic and Cultural Heritage. To promote them, the city started to host events and festivals of Art, Food, Culture, Music, etc. This led to an increase of the Region Tourism and to the growth of hotels, hostels, guesthouses and other kind of buildings to host guests. The Art Garden is more than a guesthouse. It is a space of Art, where people can stay and enjoy artworks and temporary art expositions. The research question of this study is “Can a guesthouse promote the local Culture and Heritage, contribute to making Faro a creative city, and at the same time satisfy the guests needs?” To answer this question, we designed a space suitable to host guests, that could offer them more than just a common room. Each room of the Art Garden was enriched by a unique mural. The artworks inside the rooms where realized by different artists from different countries and all of them represent attractions from the Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Algarve Region (animals, plants, colors, traditional elements, etc.). Artists from all over the World came to Faro to paint, visited the Region, created dynamism and enriched the Art offer of the town with their artworks. The space is officially opened since the end of June, 2019. All the guests already hosted, expressed their enthusiasm to stay in such an artistic and original space. We consider this project and its realization as a contribute to making Faro a creative city, destination for Culture and Art Tourism, besides the Seasonal Tourism.