Elisabeth Kastenholz
Elisabeth Kastenholz is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Management, Industrial Engineering and Tourism/ University of Aveiro, where she teaches Tourism and Marketing related subjects and is Coordinator of Tourism Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Tourism Studies and a degree in “Tourism Management and Planning” from the University of Aveiro/ Portugal, an MBA/ Oporto Business School/ Portugal, and a bachelor in “Public Administration - Specificity Foreign Affairs” from the Fachhochschule des Bundes für Öffentliche Verwaltung/ Bonn/ German Foreign Ministry. She is a member of the Research Unit GOVCOPP (Governance, Competitiveness, and Public Policies), of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Tourismuswissenschaft e.V. and the Portuguese Society of Rural Studies. She has coordinated and participated in several research projects, in the fields of rural, accessible, and senior tourism and cross-border cooperation in tourism. She has also supervised several doctoral and master dissertations in these fields, with a focus on consumer behavior in tourism, the tourist/ destination experience, and sustainable destination marketing and development. Her numerous publications, both in Portuguese and English, reflect these research interests. She is also a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Sustainable Tourism, of Anatolia and Spatial and Organizational Dynamics as well as of the scientific boards of PASOS, ROTUR, Tourism & Management Studies, and RT&D (Journal of Tourism and Development), frequently acting additionally as invited reviewer for journals such as Tourism Management, Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Economics, Tourism Analysis, Journal of Tourism Planning and Development, the Journal of Ecotourism and as member of the scientific committee of numerous international tourism and marketing conferences. She has supervised numerous Ph.D. and master projects and has also coordinated and participated in numerous local, regional, national, and international research projects, the most important being her coordinating role in the three years (2010-2013) FCT-funded research project "The overall rural tourism experience and sustainable development of local communities” and the on-going FCT project ‘TWINE – Co-creating sustainable Tourism & WINe Experiences in rural areas” (2018-2021).