The Research Centre for Tourism, Sustainability and Well-being (CinTurs) was founded in 2007 as the Research Centre for Spatial and Organisational Dynamics (CIEO). CIEO was conceived as a multidisciplinary R&D unit in the field of Social Sciences, funded and evaluated by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).
CinTurs results from the reorientation of CIEO towards the study of Tourism in 2018. The change in focus of the R&D Unit had several reasons: 1) the relevance of having an R&D unit at the University of Algarve (UAlg) dedicated to tourism, the main socio-economic driver of the Algarve region; 2) the weight and relevance of tourism research at UAlg, most of it produced by the R&D members, and acknowledged in the international rankings (namely in the Shanghai ranking, where UAlg occupies a top position in Portugal); 3) the encouragement given by FCT to tourism research through the appeal for a Thematic Agenda for Research and Innovation in Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality, and the inclusion, for the first time, of an evaluation thematic panel in tourism and hospitality in the 2017/18 evaluation process of R&D units.
CinTurs is currently classified in the following scientific areas within Social Sciences:
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