Photography, Land-Cover and Land-Use Changes, and Tourism Urbanization: A Narrative Focused on Hotel do Garbe, Armação de Pêra, Algarve, Portugal

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

1. A subject to be developed in a good way should pass in consecutive steps, and at the end, it should have a conclusion and recommendation

Author Response

Dear Reviewer,

Thank you very much for your suggestions and recommendations.

The whole manuscript was carefully reviewed.

A particular attention was paid in the description of the Methods, which culminated in the introduction of a figure (Fig. 6) that summarizes our Research Design.

A restructuring of the presentation of the Materials was also made. The reading of the article becomes simpler and more captivating to future readers, we believe.

Results, Discussion, Conclusions and recommendations were also rewritten in order to satisfy your suggestions.

Kind regards,

Nuno

Reviewer 2 Report

This article shows in a comprehensible way the development of a fishing village into a typical tourist resort. The combination of aerial photographs and picture postcards clarifies the development of the settlement structure and can also help to improve the results of an aerial photograph survey in other contexts.
Detailed comments on structure and content are given in the document.

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Dear Reviewer,

Thank you very much for your very useful suggestions and recommendations.

The whole manuscript was carefully reviewed, and we believe that the reading of the article becomes simpler and more captivating to future readers.

List of improvements introduced after reading the Detailed Comments on Structure and Content pdf:

• the word essay was replaced by study or by article
  
• research questions were clarified
  
• initial map for general orientation was included (Fig. 1)
  
• the size of the study area was explained
  
• Fig. 1.E, now Fig. 3 in the revised manuscript, was ameliorated and the numbers became readable
• research design was clarified and a figure (Fig. 6) was introduced to graphically summarizes it
• comments concerning the picture postcards were explained - namely the Postcard Legend, which is an English translation of the original caption, and the Notes, which are not related to the numbers of the twelve buildings and public infrastructures with a special visibility in the landscape but with specific details of the picture
  
• font used in Table 2 was changed
  
• content of Results, Discussion and Conclusions was adjusted according to the suggestions made by you
  

Kind regards,

Nuno

Reviewer 3 Report

1. The background of the research is not comprehensively stated in the introduction.

2. The purpose and innovation of the research are not well defined.

3. The structure of this paper can be improved

4. In the section of Theoretical foundations, authors can draw a diagram to demonstrate the theoretical framework.

5.Does your research help increase global knowledge?

6. What problems does your research solve for the target community?

7. What is the difference between your research and other researches? Compare your research with others.

Author Response

Dear Reviewer,

Thank you very much for your useful suggestions and recommendations.

The whole manuscript was very carefully reviewed and several changes on the structure of the article were made.

A particular attention was paid in the description of the Methods, which culminated in the introduction of a figure (Fig. 6) that summarizes the Research Design, as you advised.

A restructuring of the presentation of the Materials was also made. The reading of the article becomes simpler and more captivating to future readers, we believe.

Results, Discussion and Conclusions were also rewritten.

We hope the difference between our research and research from others is better explained in the revised manuscript. We know studies that use almost exclusively orthorectified vertical aerial photography and studies that use almost exclusively picture postcards. A research design that uses the various sources, intentional and simultaneously, seems to us to be rare or nonexistent.

It is by highlighting the importance of merging the various photographic sources that we intend to contribute to future research on human geography and landscape biography. We ourselves are continuing to work on this topic, to consolidate the research design now presented, through other case studies and through a better theoretical foundation.

Kind regards,

Nuno