People

Agustín Cocola-Gant

Agustín is a Research Fellow at the Universidade de Lisboa’s Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT-ULisboa). His research lies at the intersection of urban and tourism studies, with an emphasis on tourism mobilities as an agent of urban change. In particular, he has explored the rise of short-term rentals, tourism gentrification and how digital platforms such as Airbnb are driving both real estate investment and the displacement of communities.

E-mail: agustincocolagant@campus.ul.pt
ORCID: 0000-0003-3395-4233
Ciência ID: AA11-347A-AE22

Ana Gonçalves

Ana is a researcher at TERRITUR since 2013. She holds a PhD (with a European title) in Literary and Cultural Studies (2013) and a post-doc in Geography (2019). She is a senior lecturer at the Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies where she teaches in the scientific area of Arts, Humanities and Foreign Languages. She has been appointed as an external evaluator for different research projects. She has presented more than 70 talks at international conferences and she is the author of more 30 publications, including the book Reinventing a Small, Worldly City: The Cultural and Social Transformation of Cardiff, published by Routledge in 2017. She has been the recipient of more than 20 grants, awards and special mentions awarded by renowned institutions (European Cultural Foundation, Europa Nostra Awards, ENCATC, FCT, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Marie Curie Actions, Luso-American Foundation, among others). Her research interests include urban cultural studies, cultural geography, tourism and leisure, the commons and intergenerationality.

E-mail: ana.goncalves@eshte.pt
ORCID: 0000-0002-9027-6582
Ciência ID: E311-98A2-B16E

Ana Isabel Inácio

Ana Isabel is an Invited Assistant Professor at the Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies and at the Universidade Europeia (Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality), Portugal. Ana Isabel holds a PhD in Geography, specialization in Regional and Urban Planning (Universidade de Lisboa, 2009), and a master’s degree in Communication, Culture and Technologies of Information (ISCTE-IUL, 2001). Her research interests include tourism and leisure, wine tourism, tourism and communication, local development, ethics and social responsibility, health and wellness tourism, and accessible tourism.

E-mail: anaiiinacio@netcabo.pt
ORCID: 0000-0002-5004-2634
Ciência ID: 1117-FF68-4D9D

Daniel Paiva

Daniel holds a European PhD in Geography from the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning at the University of Lisbon (IGOT-ULisboa). He is currently a researcher at the Centre for Geographical Studies of the IGOT-ULisboa under the Concurso Estímulo para o Emprego Científico (CEECIND/03528/2018). His funded project explores the combination of arts, geotechnologies and urban design in the creation of urban nature experiences, with the purpose of fostering environmental awareness and conservation action.  His research investigates the multisensory experience of urban environments, with a focus on the effects of consumption- and tourism-led urban transformations on the sonic and temporal experience of urban dwellers. Daniel's studies have been published in journals such as Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Progress in Human Geography, Geography Compass, and Urban Geography.

E-mail: daniel.paiva@campus.ul.pt
ORCID: 0000-0001-9701-4705
CIÊNCIA ID: 7C19-CA93-9D04

Francisco Silva

Francisco is an Assistant Professor at the Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies, where he coordinates the master’s degree program in Tourism. His professional activity has been quite varied. Francisco has been photojournalist, consultant in tourism, and instructor and coach in several adventure activities including mountain climbing, canyoning and rope work courses. Francisco's research interests include tourism planning, events, nature-based tourism, small islands studies and smart and creative tourism.

E-mail: francisco.silva@eshte.pt
ORCID: 0000-0002-9742-7339
Ciência ID: 561B-A2EF-C92A

Franz Buhr

Franz is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre of Geographical Studies of the University of Lisbon (IGOT-ULisboa), Portugal, where he writes about the intersection between mobilities and urban studies. Franz was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie research fellow in the framework of the INTEGRIM programme. He currently works on urban change and on how cities accommodate mobile lifestyles. His interests include migration, urban mobilities, navigation, materialities and visual methods. He currently co-coordinates the IMISCOE research initiative PriMob on privileged migration, and is a member of the H2020 SMARTDEST project.

E-mail: fbuhr@campus.ul.pt 
ORCID: 0000-0002-9466-9850
Ciência ID: 3211-F92E-25E0

Inês Boavida-Portugal

Inês is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning of the University of Lisbon (IGOT-ULisboa). Her recent work explores urban tourism patterns and spatial planning responses to gear cities towards future sustainable pathways. To explore these phenomena, Inês uses a mixed-method approach including Geographical Information Systems and Information and Communication Technologies. She has been particularly interested in the application of such methodologies to study how behavioural changes at the micro-level (governance triangle: civil society, governments, markets) can produce critical changes at the macro-level in urban systems, specifically focusing on tourism dynamics as a disruptive phenomenon.

E-mail: iboavida-portugal@campus.ul.pt
ORCID: 0000-0001-9932-9241
Ciência ID: 371F-137B-F76C

José Manuel Simões

José Manuel is a geographer and urbanist. José Manuel was the founder of the Doctoral program in Tourism and its director for more than a decade. He was also the founder of the TERRITUR research group and his coordinator until 2020. His works span the tourism geography, sports geography, medical geography, regional development, and the spatial planning.

E-mail: jmsimoes@igot.ulisboa.pt
ORCID: 0000-0002-1673-483X
Ciência ID: 5A1B-3EDF-10BE

Pedro Guimarães

E-mail: pedroguimaraes@campus.ul.pt
ORCID: 0000-0001-9011-8894
Ciência ID: 1E1B-B400-DB5F

Sofia Almeida

Sofia holds a PhD in Tourism and a degree in Business Communication. She is Assistant Professor at the Universidade Europeia (Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality). Her research focuses on the areas of hotel management, networks, coopetition, hotel marketing consortia, hotel branding and digital marketing.

E-mail: aagua@campus.ul.pt
ORCID: 0000-0003-4561-6776
Ciência ID: C112-8416-D88A

Ana Gago

Ana holds a B.Sc degree in Architecture from the Técnico-ULisboa and a master's degree in Tourism and Communication from the Estoril Higher School of Hospitality and Tourism with the Faculty of Arts and the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning at the University of Lisbon (inter-institutional diplome). In 2018, she completed her master's dissertation Short-term rentals and tourism gentrification in Alfama, Lisbon. She was a research assistant on the project SMARTOUR–"Tourism, holiday rentals and rehabilitation: Smart urban policies for a sustainable future" at the Geography and Spatial Planning Research Center, University of Porto. Ana is currently working on her PhD research at the IGOT-ULisboa about the impact of tourism and holiday rentals on the residential life of Porto and Lisbon.

E-mail: ana.gago@campus.ul.pt
ORCID: 0000-0001-8390-3990
Ciência ID: FD10-8962-4D86

Aquilino Machado

Aquilino is an invited teaching assistant at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning of the University of Lisbon (IGOT-ULisboa). His research interests include urban cultural studies, literary geography, and literary tourism. Aquilino holds a master’s degree in Human Geography and he is currently a PhD candidate at the IGOT-ULisboa, where he is developing a project on urban literary territories. He was an Invited Assistant Professor at the Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies, Portugal, where he obtained the title of Tourism Specialist, conducting a research on the importance of literary tourism.

E-mail: aquilino.machado@campus.ul.pt
ORCID: 0000-0003-1246-0920

Carlo Guadagno

Carlo is an interdisciplinary doctoral researcher in Tourism at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning of the University of Lisbon (IGOT-ULisboa) and a FCT research fellow under a cooperation agreement with Fundação Côa Parque (Ref.ª PRT/BD/153585/2021). Graduated in Tourism and Development from the University of Salerno (Italy) and in Geography and Planning from the University Paris X Nanterre (France), he holds a Master’s degree in Planning and Management of Tourism Systems from the University of Bergamo (Italy), with a thesis on Understanding Overtourism: Lisbon case study within a European benchmarking. He has participated in several European projects and complementary training related to tourism, culture and environmental activism. His research interests include new growth-independent tourism development paradigms, participative and bottom-up collaborative processes in tourism governance, tourism policy, and tourism's transformative role in all socio-ecological, cultural and economic realms.

E-mail: carlog@edu.ulisboa.pt
ORCID: 0000-0002-4796-1891
Ciência ID: 351A-2AD9-3EBE
 

Catarina Belo

Catarina holds a bachelor’s degree in Languages, Literatures and Cultures from the Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon (2016) and a master’s degree in Tourism and Communication, from the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, and Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies and Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon (2019). She is currently a PhD candidate in Tourism at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning of the University of Lisbon and a researcher in the SMARTDEST project. Her research interests include creative tourism and communities, tourism mobilities, sustainable tourism and inclusive tourism.

E-mail: anacatarinabelo@edu.ulisboa.pt
ORCID: 0000-0003-3692-0215
Ciência ID: F610-4801-4AD4

Gianluca Bei

Gianluca is carrying out a PhD in geography co-tutorship from the University of Rome La Sapienza, MEMOTEF department, and the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning of the University of Lisbon (IGOT-ULisboa). Gianluca holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and a Master’s degree in Applied Social Sciences. Before starting the PhD, he undertook a postgraduate research scholarship funded by the University of Rome La Sapienza at the Centre of Geographical Studies, IGOT-ULisboa. His research is about the socio-economic impacts of digital platforms and their political implications. Currently, he is working on the regulation of platform-mediated short-term rentals. He is involved in the Research Project of National Interest (PRIN 2017) funded by the Italian ministry of education, "The short-term city: digital platforms and spatial (in)justice".

E-mail: gianlucabei@edu.ulisboa.pt 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4771-2964
 

Irene Raverta

Irene graduated in Economics and Statistics (2018) from the Università degli Studi di Torino and holds a master's degree in Human Geography (2021) from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. In her master's dissertation she investigated the ambivalences between the evolution of tourist spaces in Naples (Italy) and the spatial practices and representations of social groups. She is currently developing her PhD in Geography at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning of the University of Lisbon (IGOT-ULisboa).

E-mail: irene.raverta@edu.ulisboa.pt
ORCID: 0000-0002-8414-9747
Ciência ID: 5A1F-10A5-C3DC

Mariana Casal-Ribeiro

Mariana holds a bachelor and a master degree in hotel management by Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies. Since February 2020, she is a PhD candidate in Tourism at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning of the University of Lisbon (IGOT-ULisboa). Her PhD research is focused on crisis management models and tourist destinations recovery in epidemic situations. She studies the case of COVID-19 pandemic in Lisbon, modelling more sustainable future scenarios for the post-COVID-19 Lisbon destination.

E-mail: mariana.ribeiro2@edu.ulisboa.pt
ORCID: 0000-0002-4854-2736
Ciência ID: 3A18-79CD-A5AF

Marisa Fragoso

Marisa holds a bachelor's degree in Tourism, Leisure and Heritage from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra, a postgraduate degree in Economics, Tourism Management and Hotel Management from the School of Economics and Management of the University of Lisbon, and a Master’s degree in Tourism and Communication from the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon (IGOT-ULisboa), and Estoril Higher Institute for Hotel and Tourism Studies (ESHTE). Currently, she is a PhD student in Tourism at IGOT-ULisboa. Her research interests include creative tourism, sustainable and inclusive tourism, urban tourism, tourism policies and placemaking.

E-mail: marisafragoso@edu.ulisboa.pt
ORCID: 0000-0002-8840-2877
Ciência ID: D517-4A94-B710

Pedro H. Ferreira

Pedro holds a bachelor’s degree in Geography from the Minas Gerais Federal University, where he went through a curricular path based on urban studies. Pedro also holds a master’s degree in Architecture and Urbanism from the same university, in which he developed a research about the socio-spatial dynamics of Airbnb in Brazil. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate in Geography at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning of the University of Lisbon, where he analyses the urban geographies of Airbnb in the city of Rio de Janeiro. His main interest is verifying the role of dominant real estate agents involved by the platform in the process of financialisation of housing through the short-term rentals mediated by digital technology.

E-mail: pedrohferreira@edu.ulisboa.pt
ORCID: 0000-0003-2169-5502
Ciência ID: 6B15-C58A-F0A3

Raul Ribeiro Ferreira

Raul started his career as a cook, then he became hotel managing director and lecturer of Hotel Management. He holds a degree of Specialist in Hospitality and Restaurants and teaches at several higher institutes as invited lecturer. Since 2013, Raul is the President of ADHP—Portuguese Association of Hotel Managers. He also works as a consultant and advisor to several tourism organisations, hotels and catering companies in Portugal and Angola. Raul holds a B.A. in Tourism and Hotel Management from the Polytechnic Institute International, in Lisbon. Currently, he is a PhD candidate in Tourism at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning of the University of Lisbon.

E-mail: raul-ferreira@campus.ul.pt
ORCID: 0000-0003-0657-7743

Rosaline de Oliveira

Rosaline holds a degree in Tourism from the University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR), Brazil (1992) and a master's degree in Development and Environment from the Federal University of Ceará (UFC), Brazil (2001). She is a professor at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Ceará (IFCE), Brazil. Rosaline is currently a PhD candidate in Tourism at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning of the University of Lisbon (IGOT-ULisboa). Her research interests include concepts such as community-based tourism, sustainability, regenerative tourism, and cultural landscape.

E-mail: rosalineoliveira@edu.ulisboa.pt
ORCID: 0000-0001-8057-1951
Ciência ID: 331F-E3DE -E539

Sara Larrabure

Sara holds a bachelor's and a master's degree in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of Franca, Brazil (2005), and a master's degree in Human Geography by the University of São Paulo, Brazil (2011). She also holds a post-graduation in Computation applied to Architecture, Urbanism and Design by the School of Architecture of the University of Lisbon, Portugal (2020). Sara is currently a PhD candidate in Geography at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning of the University of Lisbon (IGOT-ULisboa) and a researcher in the H2020 SMARTDEST project. Her PhD research project focuses on the way as women who inhabits in the center of Lisbon experience the socio-territorial transformations resulting from tourism growth.

E-mail: slarrabure@edu.ulisboa.pt
ORCID: 0000-0001-6958-0996
Ciência ID: DD18-8CEA-B562

Siavash Ghoddousi

For the past eleven years, Siavash has been studying different topics in nature conservation with projects on human-wildlife conflicts, sustainable tourism development and community-based development in Iran and the Caucasus. He obtained his MSc. in Tourism Economics and Regional Development from University of Algarve, Portugal, in 2016, with a thesis on the role of nature-based tourism in local communities’ attitudes toward biodiversity conservation. Upon the completion of his studies, Siavash returned to Iran and worked in different research projects of the Georg-August University of Goettingen, Germany, related to better understanding the levels of co-existence between local people and large carnivores. Currently Siavash is PhD candidate at University of Lisbon's Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT-ULisboa). He is working on the role of nature-based tourism and human-wildlife conflict on local communities’ support for biodiversity conservation, before and after the COVID-19 pandemic, in Pantanal, Brazil.

E-mail: siavash@edu.ulisboa.pt
ORCID: 0000-0002-1214-4541
Ciência ID: BA1B-8C05-FC72