Creative tourism: catalysing artisan entrepreneur networks in rural Portugal Available to Purchase

Fiona Eva Bakas is Critical Tourism Researcher with international teaching and tourism industry experience. She holds a PhD Tourism (Otago University, 2014), an MSc Ecotourism (Portsmouth University, 2004) and a BSc (Hons) Biotechnology with European Studies (University of Nottingham, 1999). With 20 years of varied work experience in academia, the tourism industry and corporate businesses, she is now Postdoctoral Researcher in a Nationwide project on creative tourism in rural areas and small cities (CREATOUR), at the Center for Social Studies, Coimbra University, Portugal. Fiona has published in peer-reviewed journals on aspects of creative and cultural tourism, gender in tourism labor, qualitative methodologies, handicrafts, entrepreneurship, rural tourism, ecotourism and feminist economics (available at: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5699-8178).

Nancy Duxbury, PhD, is Senior Researcher at the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, and a member of the European Expert Network on Culture. She is Principal Investigator of CREATOUR. Past research examined culture in local sustainable development; culture-based development models in smaller communities; and cultural mapping, which bridges academic inquiry, community practice and artistic approaches to understand and articulate place. Recent books: Animation of Public Space through the Arts: Toward More Sustainable Communities (Almedina 2013), Cultural Mapping as Cultural Inquiry, and Culture and Sustainability in European Cities: Imagining Europolis (both Routledge 2015) (available at: http://ces.uc.pt/en/ces/pessoas/investigadoras-es/nancy-duxbury/publicacoes).

Tiago Vinagre de Castro holds a Degree in Tourism Management and Planning, a Master Degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Aveiro and a Specialization in Management and Production of Shows from the University Lusófona of Porto. He was Active Member and Associative Leader of the Experimental Theater Group of the University of Aveiro (GrETUA). In the last ten years, he has worked mainly in the cultural sector as a Producer, Manager, Trainer, Creator and Actor (national and international level). Since 2012, he has combined the roles of cultural manager and urban planner at 4iS – Platform for Social Innovation. He collaborates as a mentor in the Tandem Ukraine program and is an Active Member of the European networks CitizensLab and Tandem. He is currently Junior Researcher under the CREATOUR project.