NEWSLETTER #33 - October 2025
NEWSLETTER #33 - October 2025
Bringing
together world-leading experts in tourism, management, and
sustainability, they support CinTurs in shaping research strategies,
fostering international collaboration, and amplifying societal impact.
This month, the CinTurs Executive Committee, represented by Maria Manuela Guerreiro and José de São José, together with researcher Jorge Ramos and municipal officer Rita Pestana, held the first meeting of the CinTurs-UALG/Municipality of Olhão Non-Academic Chair. This initiative strengthens the link between science and society, fostering applied research for sustainable territorial development. Within this framework, Jorge Ramos will study Tourism and protected areas, focusing on the Ria Formosa, including destination management, biodiversity, and fishing tourism models.
On October 15-17, 2025, the IRNIST conference took place at the University of Algarve, Portugal. This conference had a joint organization of the School of Education and Communication (ESEC, UAlg), CinTurs, and the International Research Network in Sports Tourism (IRNIST). More than 100 participants from 14 nations attended the conference, together with regional tourist stakeholders, public officials, and sports and tourism industry representatives.
On October 1, CinTurs hosted a webinar entitled “Reframing Mass Tourism. Using Speculative Methodologies in Political Imagination and Tourism Management.” The seminar was presented by four researchers - Neus Crous-Costa, Sílvia Grau, Susana Rodilla, and Carolina Conti - who reflected on the challenges of mass tourism and its implications for landscapes and cities, especially in southern Europe.
On October 2, CinTurs researcher João Filipe Marques gave the inaugural lecture at the First Conference of Doctoral Students of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra - “Sociologias para o Futuro!, with the topic “Deviant Behavior of Tourists: Liminality, Acrasia, and Moral Disengagement - First Steps of a Research Project.”
Predictive models only matter when they
shape real decisions. In the second part of the dialogue between
Hotelnet and Professor Luís Nobre Pereira, CinTurs Co-Coordinator, the
discussion focuses on the toughest challenge: transforming predictions
into operational tools that truly enhance hotel performance.Through
topics such as demand forecasting, conversion probabilities, and data
adoption by teams, this exchange highlights how research becomes
practice and how rigor and execution together drive measurable
innovation.
Full article here:
Hotelnet
– Data-Driven Hospitality
On November 7 at 6:30 p.m., the FNAC
store at Colombo Shopping Centre (Lisbon) will host the presentation of
the book “Introdução à Sociologia do Lazer e do Turismo”, authored by
CinTurs researchers João Filipe Marques, Ana
Rita Cruz, and Teresa Rodrigues.
The presentation will be made by
Professor Luís Baptista, Full Professor at the Faculty of Social
Sciences and Humanities, NOVA University Lisbon.
This publication offers a valuable
contribution to the understanding of leisure and tourism from a
sociological perspective, further reinforcing CinTurs’ commitment to
advancing research in these fields.
