Fiona Bakas

Fiona Eva Bakas, PhD, is a critical tourism researcher with international teaching experience. She holds a PhD in Tourism (Otago University, NZ), has 25 years of varied work experience (corporate and academic), and is currently assistant professor at IGOT, University of Lisbon, Portugal. She is coordinating qualitative research across six EU countries and helping to create a documentary in Horizon project FUTOURWORK, She is coordinating participatory research that mediates tourism and community stakeholders to co-create solutions for tourism destinations that are more adapted to wildfires in FCT-funded project PYROTuR. Fiona´s industry memberships: Member of Culture for Change (Greece), Associate Member of NGO Equality in Tourism (UK) and Assembly President of cultural and environmental NGO Lousitanea (PT). Research interests include: social value of carnivals, creative and cultural tourism, gender in tourism labour, feminist political economy, qualitative methodologies, ethnography (also in the metaverse), handicrafts, female entrepreneurship, rural tourism, and ecotourism.